Daniel 6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 6

Daniel does not give a continued history of the reigns in which he lived, nor of the state-affairs of the kingdoms of Chaldea and Persia, though he was himself a great man in those affairs; for what are those to us? But he selects such particular passages of story as serve for the confirming of our faith in God and the encouraging of our obedience to him, for the things written aforetime were written for our learning. It is a very observable improvable story that we have in this chapter, how... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 6:1-5

We are told concerning Daniel, I. What a great man he was. When Darius, upon his accession to the crown of Babylon by conquest, new-modelled the government, he made Daniel prime-minister of state, set him at the helm, and made him first commissioner both of the treasury and of the great seal. Darius's dominion was very large; all he got by his conquests and acquests was that he had so many more countries to take care of; no more can be expected from himself than what one man can do, and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 6:6-10

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 not have been of force; but it was not properly his: he contrived it not, and was perfectly... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 6:11-17

Here is 1. Proof made of Daniel's praying to his God, notwithstanding the late edict to the contrary (Dan. 6:11): These men assembled; the came tumultuously together, so the word is, the same that was used Dan. 6:6; borrowed from Ps. 2:1; Why do the heathen rage? They came together to visit Daniel, perhaps under pretence of business, at that time which they knew to be his usual hour of devotion; and, if they had not found him so engaged, they would have upbraided him with his faint-heartedness... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 6:18-24

Here is, I. The melancholy night which the king had, upon Daniel's account, Dan. 6:18. He had said, indeed, that God would deliver him out of the danger, but at the same time he could not forgive himself for throwing him into the danger; and justly might God deprive him of a friend whom he had himself used so barbarously. He went to his palace, vexed at himself for what he had done, and calling himself unwise and unjust for not adhering to the law of God and nature with a non obstante?a... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 6:25-28

Darius here studies to make some amends for the dishonour he had done both to God and Daniel, in casting Daniel into the lions? den, by doing honour to both. I. He gives honour to God by a decree published to all nations, by which they are required to fear before him. And this is a decree which is indeed fit to be made unalterable, according to the laws of the Medes and Persians, for it is the everlasting gospel, preached to those that dwell on the earth, Rev. 14:7. Fear God, and give glory to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 6

INTRODUCTION TO DANIEL 6 This chapter gives an account of Daniel's being cast into the den of lions, and the causes of it, and the steps leading to it; and also of his wonderful deliverance out of it, and what followed upon that. It first relates how Daniel was made by Darius first president of the princes of the kingdom, which drew their envy upon him, Daniel 6:1 , and that these princes finding they could get no occasion against him, but in religion, proposed to the king to make a law... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 6:1

It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes ,.... This is the same Darius mentioned in the latter part of the preceding chapter; who, as soon as he took the kingdom of Babylon, divided it into a hundred and twenty provinces, as Jacchiades observes; as was the manner of the Medes and Persians. So Darius the son of Hystaspes divided the kingdom of Persia into twenty provinces, and set governors over each, according to Herodotus F18 Thalia, sive l. 3. c. 89. ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 6:2

And over these three presidents ,.... To whom the hundred and twenty princes were accountable for their conduct, and to whom the people might apply for redress of grievances, if oppressed; perhaps the whole empire was divided into three greater parts, and each part had forty provinces in it, and over it a president or deputy of the king; to whom the princes of each province gave in the account of what they received for the king, and what use they made of it: (of whom Daniel was the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 6:3

Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes ,.... Not only above the princes, but the presidents, being the first of them, as before: or, "he was victorious above them" F25 מתנצח "victorem se gerebat", Piscator, Michaelis. ; he got more credit and applause than they did, being more exact, diligent, and laborious, faithful, and conscientious: because an excellent spirit was in him ; meaning not a spirit of grace, piety, and religion, which the Heathen king was... read more

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