Daniel 6:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

Daniel 6:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 118:9
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
Psalms 146:3
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Proverbs 6:2
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Psalms 62:9-10
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-10)

Daniel’s adversaries could have no advantage against him from any law now in being; they therefore contrive a new law, by which they hope to ensnare him, and in a matter in which they knew they should be sure of him; and such was his fidelity to his God that they gained their point. Here is, I. Darius’s impious law. I call it Darius’s, because he gave the royal assent to it, and otherwise it would…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. Such a despotic decree is quite explicable by remembering that the king, as the incarnation of Ormuzd, might demand such an act of religious obedience as a test of loyalty. Persecuting laws are always made on false pretenses. Instead of bitter complaints against men, Daniel prays to God. Though having vast business as a ruler of the empire, he finds time to pray thrice a day. Daniel’s three com…