The KJV Bible With Strong's References:
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Daniel 6
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- 6:1 It
pleased
*
Darius to
set
over the
kingdom an
hundred and
twenty
princes, which should
be over the
whole
kingdom;
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- 6:2 And
over
these
three
presidents; of
whom
Daniel was
first:
that the
princes
might
give
accounts unto them, and the
king should
have
no
damage.
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- 6:3
Then
this
Daniel
was
preferred
above the
presidents and
princes,
because
an
excellent
spirit was in him; and the
king
thought to
set him
over the
whole
realm.
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- 6:4
Then the
presidents and
princes
sought
* to
find
occasion against
Daniel
concerning the
kingdom;
but they
could
find
none
occasion
nor
fault;
forasmuch as he was
faithful,
neither was there
any
error or
fault
found in
him.
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- 6:5
Then
said
these
men, We shall
not
find
any
occasion
against
this
Daniel,
except we
find it against him concerning the
law of his
God.
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- 6:6
Then
these
presidents and
princes assembled
together to the
king, and
said
thus unto
him,
King
Darius,
live for
ever.
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- 6:7
All the
presidents of the
kingdom, the
governors, and the
princes, the
counsellors, and the
captains, have consulted
together to
establish a
royal
statute, and to make a
firm
decree, that whosoever shall
ask a
petition
of
any
God or
man
for
thirty
days,
save of
thee, O
king, he shall be
cast into the
den of
lions.
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- 6:8
Now, O
king,
establish the
decree, and
sign the
writing, that it be
not
changed, according to the
law of the
Medes and
Persians, which
altereth
not.
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- 6:9
Wherefore
*
*
king
Darius
signed the
writing and the
decree.
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- 6:10 Now when
Daniel
knew that the
writing was
signed, he
went into his
house; and his
windows being
open in his
chamber
toward
Jerusalem, he
kneeled
upon his
knees
three
times a
day, and
prayed, and gave
thanks
before his
God,
as
he
did
*
aforetime
*
*.
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- 6:11
Then
these
men
assembled, and
found
Daniel
praying and making
supplication
before his
God.
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- 6:12
Then they came
near, and
spake
before the
king
concerning the
king's
decree; Hast thou
not
signed a
decree, that
every
man that shall
ask a petition
of
any
God or
man
within
thirty
days,
save of
thee, O
king, shall be
cast into the
den of
lions? The
king
answered and
said, The
thing is
true, according to the
law of the
Medes and
Persians, which
altereth
not.
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- 6:13
Then
answered they and
said
before the
king, That
Daniel, which is
of the
children of the
captivity of
Judah,
regardeth
*
not
thee, O
king, nor the
decree that thou hast
signed, but
maketh his
petition
three
times a
day.
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- 6:14
Then the
king, when he
heard these
words, was
sore
displeased with himself, and
set his
heart
on
Daniel to
deliver him: and he
laboured
*
till the going
down of the
sun to
deliver him.
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- 6:15
Then
these
men
assembled
unto the
king, and
said unto the
king,
Know, O
king, that the
law of the
Medes and
Persians is, That
no
decree nor
statute which the
king
establisheth may be
changed.
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- 6:16
Then the
king
commanded, and they
brought
Daniel, and
cast him into the
den of
lions. Now the
king
spake and
said unto
Daniel, Thy
God whom
thou
servest
continually, he will
deliver thee.
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- 6:17 And
a
stone was
brought, and
laid
upon the
mouth of the
den; and the
king
sealed it with his own
signet, and with the
signet of his
lords; that the
purpose might
not be
changed concerning
Daniel.
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- 6:18
Then the
king
went to his
palace, and passed the
night
fasting:
neither were
instruments of musick
brought
before him: and his
sleep
went from
him.
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- 6:19
Then the
king
arose very
early in the
morning, and
went in
haste unto the
den of
lions.
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- 6:20 And when he
came to the
den, he
cried with a
lamentable
voice unto
Daniel: and the
king
spake and
said to
Daniel, O
Daniel,
servant of the
living
God, is thy
God, whom thou
servest
continually,
able to
deliver thee
from the
lions?
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- 6:21
Then
said
Daniel
unto the
king, O
king,
live for
ever.
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- 6:22 My
God hath
sent his
angel, and hath
shut the
lions'
mouths, that they have
not
hurt me: forasmuch
as
*
before him
innocency was
found in me; and
also
before thee, O
king, have I
done
no
hurt.
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- 6:23
Then was the
king
exceeding
glad for
him, and
commanded that they should
take
Daniel
up out
of the
den. So
Daniel was taken
up out
of the
den, and
no
manner of
hurt was
found upon him, because he
believed in his
God.
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- 6:24 And the
king
commanded, and they
brought
those
men which had
accused
*
Daniel, and they
cast them into the
den of
lions,
them, their
children, and their
wives; and the
lions had the
mastery
* of them, and
brake
all their
bones in
pieces or
ever they
came at the
bottom of the
den.
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- 6:25
Then
king
Darius
wrote unto
all
people,
nations, and
languages, that
dwell in
all the
earth;
Peace be
multiplied unto you.
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- 6:26
I
*
make a
decree, That in
every
dominion of my
kingdom men
tremble
* and
fear
before
the
God of
Daniel: for he is the
living
God, and
stedfast for
ever, and his
kingdom that which shall
not be
destroyed, and his
dominion shall be even
unto the
end.
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- 6:27 He
delivereth and
rescueth, and he
worketh
signs and
wonders in
heaven and in
earth, who hath
delivered
Daniel
from the
power of the
lions.
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- 6:28 So
this
Daniel
prospered in the
reign of
Darius, and in the
reign of
Cyrus the
Persian.
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