9Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
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It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
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. …
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 woul…
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