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Daniel 6:11
Then these men were watching and saw Daniel making prayers and requesting grace before his God.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Then these men went as a group and found Daniel petitioning and imploring his God.
Then these men went as a group and found Daniel petitioning and imploring his God.
Hebrew Names Version
Then these men assembled together, and found Daniyel making petition and supplication before his God.
Then these men assembled together, and found Daniyel making petition and supplication before his God.
King James Version
Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
English Standard Version
Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and plea before his God.
Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and plea before his God.
New American Standard Bible
Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel offering a prayer and imploring favor before his God.
Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel offering a prayer and imploring favor before his God.
New Century Version
Then those men went as a group and found Daniel praying and asking God for help.
Then those men went as a group and found Daniel praying and asking God for help.
Amplified Bible
Then, by agreement, these men came [together] and found Daniel praying and making requests before his God.
Then, by agreement, these men came [together] and found Daniel praying and making requests before his God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then these men assembled, and founde Daniel praying, and making supplication vnto his God.
Then these men assembled, and founde Daniel praying, and making supplication vnto his God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
Berean Standard Bible
Then these men went as a group and found Daniel petitioning and imploring his God.
Then these men went as a group and found Daniel petitioning and imploring his God.
Contemporary English Version
The men who had spoken to the king watched Daniel and saw him praying to his God for help.
The men who had spoken to the king watched Daniel and saw him praying to his God for help.
Complete Jewish Bible
On learning that the document had been signed, Dani'el went home. The windows of his upstairs room were open in the direction of Yerushalayim; and there he kneeled down three times a day and prayed, giving thanks before his God, just as he had been doing before.
On learning that the document had been signed, Dani'el went home. The windows of his upstairs room were open in the direction of Yerushalayim; and there he kneeled down three times a day and prayed, giving thanks before his God, just as he had been doing before.
Darby Translation
But those men came in a body, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
But those men came in a body, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the supervisors and satraps went as a group and found Daniel praying and asking God for help.
Then the supervisors and satraps went as a group and found Daniel praying and asking God for help.
George Lamsa Translation
Then these men spied, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
Then these men spied, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
Good News Translation
When Daniel's enemies observed him praying to God,
When Daniel's enemies observed him praying to God,
Lexham English Bible
Then these men came as a group and they found Daniel praying and pleading for mercy before his God.
Then these men came as a group and they found Daniel praying and pleading for mercy before his God.
Literal Translation
Then these men met together and found Daniel praying and seeking mercy before his God.
Then these men met together and found Daniel praying and seeking mercy before his God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then these men made searche, and founde Daniel makynge his peticion, and prayenge vnto his God.
Then these men made searche, and founde Daniel makynge his peticion, and prayenge vnto his God.
American Standard Version
Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house--now his windows were open in his upper chamber toward Jerusalem--and he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house--now his windows were open in his upper chamber toward Jerusalem--and he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
King James Version (1611)
Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying, and making supplication before his God.
Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying, and making supplication before his God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then these men assembled and found Daniel making his petition, and praying vnto his God.
Then these men assembled and found Daniel making his petition, and praying vnto his God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then these men watched, and found Daniel praying and supplicating to his God.
Then these men watched, and found Daniel praying and supplicating to his God.
English Revised Version
Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
World English Bible
Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor tho men enqueriden ful bisili, and founden Danyel preiynge, and bisechynge his God.
Therfor tho men enqueriden ful bisili, and founden Danyel preiynge, and bisechynge his God.
Update Bible Version
Then these [prominent] men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
Then these [prominent] men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
New English Translation
Then those officials who had gone to the king came by collusion and found Daniel praying and asking for help before his God.
Then those officials who had gone to the king came by collusion and found Daniel praying and asking for help before his God.
New King James Version
Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
New Living Translation
Then the officials went together to Daniel's house and found him praying and asking for God's help.
Then the officials went together to Daniel's house and found him praying and asking for God's help.
New Life Bible
Then these men came as a group and found Daniel praying and asking favor from his God.
Then these men came as a group and found Daniel praying and asking favor from his God.
New Revised Standard
The conspirators came and found Daniel praying and seeking mercy before his God.
The conspirators came and found Daniel praying and seeking mercy before his God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then, these men, crowded together, and found Daniel, - praying and making supplication, before his God.
Then, these men, crowded together, and found Daniel, - praying and making supplication, before his God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore those men carefully watching him, found Daniel praying and making supplication to his God.
Wherefore those men carefully watching him, found Daniel praying and making supplication to his God.
Revised Standard Version
Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
Young's Literal Translation
Then these men have assembled, and found Daniel praying and entreating grace before his God;
Then these men have assembled, and found Daniel praying and entreating grace before his God;
THE MESSAGE
The conspirators came and found him praying, asking God for help. They went straight to the king and reminded him of the royal decree that he had signed. "Did you not," they said, "sign a decree forbidding anyone to pray to any god or man except you for the next thirty days? And anyone caught doing it would be thrown into the lions' den?" "Absolutely," said the king. "Written in stone, like all the laws of the Medes and Persians."
The conspirators came and found him praying, asking God for help. They went straight to the king and reminded him of the royal decree that he had signed. "Did you not," they said, "sign a decree forbidding anyone to pray to any god or man except you for the next thirty days? And anyone caught doing it would be thrown into the lions' den?" "Absolutely," said the king. "Written in stone, like all the laws of the Medes and Persians."
Contextual Overview
11 Then these men were watching and saw Daniel making prayers and requesting grace before his God. 12 Then they came near before the king and said, O King, have you not put your name to an order that any man who makes a request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole? The king made answer and said, The thing is fixed by the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end. 13 Then they made answer and said before the king, Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah, has no respect for you, O King, or for the order signed by you, but three times a day he makes his prayer to God. 14 When this thing came to the king's ears, it was very evil to him, and his heart was fixed on keeping Daniel safe, and till the going down of the sun he was doing everything in his power to get him free. 15 Then these men said to the king, Be certain, O King, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no order or law which the king has put into force may be changed. 16 Then the king gave the order, and they took Daniel and put him into the lions' hole. The king made answer and said to Daniel, Your God, whose servant you are at all times, will keep you safe. 17 Then they got a stone and put it over the mouth of the hole, and it was stamped with the king's stamp and with the stamp of the lords, so that the decision about Daniel might not be changed.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
assembled: Daniel 6:6, Psalms 10:9, Psalms 37:32, Psalms 37:33
Reciprocal: Psalms 137:5 - I forget Proverbs 28:1 - the righteous Matthew 22:21 - and 1 Peter 4:19 - in
Cross-References
Genesis 6:1
And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,
And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,
Genesis 6:2
The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.
The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.
Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
Genesis 10:9
He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.
He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.
Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.
2 Chronicles 34:27
And your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before God, on hearing his words about this place and its people, and with weeping and signs of grief have made yourself low before me, I have given ear to you, says the Lord God.
And your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before God, on hearing his words about this place and its people, and with weeping and signs of grief have made yourself low before me, I have given ear to you, says the Lord God.
Psalms 11:5
The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.
The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.
Psalms 55:9
Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.
Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.
Psalms 140:11
Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.
Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.
Isaiah 60:18
Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.
Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then these men assembled,.... Gathered together, and went in a body to Daniel's house; knowing his times of prayer, and where, and in what manner, he used to pray, to see if they could find him at it as aforetime; that so they might have to accuse him with it. Saadiah says, they found a girl, and asked her what Daniel was doing? she told him that Daniel was on his knees, praying to his God in his chamber; immediately they went, and found as she had said:
and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God; they went into his house, and up into his chamber, the doors not being locked, pretending perhaps business with him, and saw him at his devotions; so that they were able, upon their own knowledge, to bring in an accusation against him for breach of the king's law, and prove it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Then these men assembled ... - Evidently with a design of finding him at his devotions.
