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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Daniel 6 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/daniel/6.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/daniel/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/daniel/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> > Daniel 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../daniel/5.htm" title="Daniel 5">◄</a> Daniel 6 <a href="../daniel/7.htm" title="Daniel 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-1.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom; <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-2.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account unto them, and that the king should have no damage. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-3.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the presidents and the satraps, because a surpassing spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-4.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-5.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then said these men: ‘We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him in the matter of the law of his God.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-6.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then these presidents and satraps came tumultuously to the king, and said thus unto him: ‘King Darius, live for ever! <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-7.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the ministers and the governors, have consulted together that the king should establish a statute, and make a strong interdict, 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-8.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now, O king, establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-9.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-10.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-11.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then these men came tumultuously, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-12.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s interdict: ‘Hast thou not signed an interdict, that every man that shall make petition unto 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.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-13.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then answered they and said before the king: ‘That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the interdict that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-14.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-15.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then these men came tumultuously unto the king, and said unto the king: ‘Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no interdict nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-16.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spoke and said unto Daniel: ‘Thy God whom thou servest continually, He will deliver thee.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-17.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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 nothing might be changed concerning Daniel. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-18.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were diversions brought before him; and his sleep fled from him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-19.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-20.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And when he came near unto the den to Daniel, he cried with a pained voice; the king spoke 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?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-21.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then said Daniel unto the king: ‘O king, live for ever! <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-22.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>My God hath sent His angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, and 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.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-23.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then was the king exceeding glad, 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 had trusted in his God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-24.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And the king commanded, and they brought those men that had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and they had not come to the bottom of the den, when the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-25.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then king Darius wrote unto all the peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: ‘Peace be multiplied unto you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-26.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel;</div><div class="po2">For He is the living God,</div><div class="po2">And stedfast for ever,</div><div class="po2">And His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed,</div><div class="po2">And His dominion shall be even unto the end;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-27.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>He delivereth and rescueth,</div><div class="po2">And He worketh signs and wonders</div><div class="po2">In heaven and in earth;</div><div class="po2">Who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.’</div> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/6-28.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../daniel/5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Daniel 5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Daniel 5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../daniel/7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Daniel 7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Daniel 7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/daniel/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); var rcds = document.getElementById("rcjsload_a957f3"); var rcel = document.createElement("script"); rcel.id = 'rc_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000); rcel.type = 'text/javascript'; rcel.src = "https://trends.revcontent.com/serve.js.php?w=111176&t="+rcel.id+"&c="+(new Date()).getTime()+"&width="+(window.outerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth)+"&referer="+encodeURIComponent(referer); rcel.async = true; rcds.appendChild(rcel); })(); </script> </td></tr></table> <br /><br /> <div class="bot2"> <table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2-bhub.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></body></html>