Daniel 6:15

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(6-16) Lalu bergegas-gegaslah orang-orang itu menghadap raja serta berkata kepadanya: "Ketahuilah, ya raja, bahwa menurut undang-undang orang Media dan Persia tidak ada larangan atau penetapan yang dikeluarkan raja yang dapat diubah!"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(6-16) Lalu bergegas-gegaslah orang-orang itu menghadap raja serta berkata kepadanya: "Ketahuilah, ya raja, bahwa menurut undang-undang orang Media dan Persia tidak ada larangan atau penetapan yang dikeluarkan raja yang dapat diubah!"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Demi didengar baginda sembah ini, maka amarahlah baginda akan dirinya, ditentukannya dalam hatinya hendak meluputkan Daniel juga, bahkan, sampai waktu masuk matahari bagindapun mencahari upaya hendak meluputkan Daniel.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Then these men assembled and found Daniel making his petition, and praying vnto his God. ¹² So they came to the king, & spake before him concerning his comaundement, saying: O king, hast thou not sealed the decree, that within thirtie dayes whoso requireth his petition of any God or man, but onely of thy selfe O king, he shalbe cast into the denne of lions? The king aunswered and said, Yea it is true, according to the lawe of the Medes and Perses that altereth not. ¹³ Then aunswered they, and saide vnto the king: This Daniel which is of the children of the captiuitie of Iuda, O king, regardeth neither thee, nor thy decree that thou hast sealed: but maketh his petition three times a day. ¹⁴ When the king heard these wordes, he was sore displeased with him selfe, and set his heart on Daniel to deliuer him, and he laboured till the sonne went downe, to deliuer him. ¹⁵ Then these men assembled vnto the king, and said vnto him: Knowe this O king, that the lawe of the Medes & Perses [is] that the commaundement & statute which the king maketh, may not be altered. ¹⁶ Then the king commaunded, and they brought Daniel, and they cast him into the lions denne. Nowe the king spake vnto Daniel, & saide: Thy God whom thou alway seruest, euen he wyll deliuer thee. ¹⁷ And there was brought a stone, & laide vpon ye mouth of the denne, this the king sealed with his owne ring and with the signet of his princes, that the purpose concerning Daniel should not be chaunged.

Bible Verse Review
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Know: Daniel 6:8, Daniel 6:12, Esther 8:8, Psalms 94:20, Psalms 94:21

Reciprocal: Esther 3:12 - in the name Ezekiel 38:16 - that the

Cross-References

Genesis 7:20
Fyfteene cubites vpward did the waters preuayle, so that the mountaynes were couered.

Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og kyng of Basan, remayned of the remnaunt of the giauntes, whose bed was a bed of iron: And is it not yet at Rabbath among ye children of Ammon? Nine cubites doth the length therof contayne, and foure cubites the breadth of it, after the cubite of a man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then these men assembled to the king,.... Who had left him for a while to consider of the case; or they departed to consult among themselves about the king's proposals to them; or went home to their own houses to dinner, and returned in a body; they came in a tumultuous way, as the word signifies; see Daniel 6:6, they cluttered about him, and were very rude and noisy, and addressed him in an authoritative and threatening manner:

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; they perceived that he was desirous of altering or nullifying the decree he had made, which to have done would have been to his reputation; and to this they oppose a fundamental law of the realm, that no decree ratified by the king could be altered; to attempt to do this would be a breach of their constitution, and of dangerous consequence; it would lessen the king's authority, and be a means of his subjects rising up in rebellion against him: for that there was such a law, the king knew as well as they; nor do they say this by way of information, but to urge him to the execution of the decree; and there is no doubt to be made that there was such a fundamental law, though a foolish one, and which afterwards continued, Esther 1:19, but the instance which some writers give out of Diodorus Siculus f, concerning Charidemus, a general of the Athenians, whom another Darius king of Persia condemned to die for the freedom of speech he used with him and afterwards repented of it, but in vain; for his royal power, as the historian observes, could not make that undone which was done; this is no proof of the immutability of the laws of the Persians, since the king's repentance was after the general's death, which then was too late.

f Bibliothec. Hist. l. 17. p. 510.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then these men assembled unto the king - The Chaldee here is the same as in Daniel 6:6, “they came tumultuously.” They were earnest that the law should be executed, and they probably apprehended that if the king were allowed to dwell upon it, the firmness of his own mind would give way, and that he would release Daniel. Perhaps they dreaded the effect of the compunctious visitings which he might have during the silence of the night, and they, therefore, came tumultuously to hasten his decision.

Know, O king, that the law ... - That is a settled matter about which there can be no debate or difference of opinion. It would seem that this was a point so well settled that no question could be raised in regard to it, and, to their minds, it was equally clear that if this were so, it was necessary that the sentence should be executed without delay.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. Then these men assembled — Having got favourable answers, as we may presume, from many individuals, he called a parliament; but they now collectively joined to urge the execution of the law, not its repeal.