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Brenton's Septuagint

Daniel 6:11

Then these men watched, and found Daniel praying and supplicating to his God.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Civil Service;   Conspiracy;   Daniel;   Diplomacy;   Faith;   Indictments;   Persia;   Politics;   Religion;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Hatred;   Persecution;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Darius;   Lion;   Punishments;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Dwellings;   Media;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Daniel;   Darius;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Daniel, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Decree;   Prayer;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Dari'us;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Daniel;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Dan'iel;   Medes, Me'dia;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Synagogue;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Adoration, Forms of;   Banishment;   China;   Darius Iii;   East;   Liturgy;   Mizraḥ;   Prayer;   Shemoneh 'Esreh;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
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.
King James Version
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.
New American Standard Bible
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.
Amplified Bible
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
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.
Contemporary English Version
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.
Darby Translation
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.
George Lamsa Translation
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,
Lexham English Bible
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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.
Bible in Basic English
Then these men were watching and saw Daniel making prayers and requesting grace 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.
King James Version (1611)
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.
English Revised Version
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
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.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New King James Version
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.
New Life Bible
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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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.
Revised Standard Version
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;
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."

Contextual Overview

11 Then these men watched, and found Daniel praying and supplicating to his God. 12 And they came and said to the king, O king, has thou not made a decree, that whatsoever man shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, but of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? And the king said, The word is true, and the decree of the Medes and Persians shall not pass. 13 Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judea, has not submitted to thy decree; and three times in the day he makes his requests of his God. 14 Then the king, when he heard the saying, was much grieved for Daniel and he greatly exerted himself for Daniel to deliver him: and he exerted himself till evening to deliver him. 15 Then those men said to the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is that we must not change any decree of statue which the king shall make. 16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. But the king said to Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee. 17 And they brought a stone, and put it on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his ring, and with the ring of his nobles; that the case might not be altered with regard to Daniel.

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 Noe was five hundred years old, and he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:2
And it came to pass when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 7:1
And the Lord God said to Noe, Enter thou and all thy family into the ark, for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Genesis 10:9
He was a giant hunter before the Lord God; therefore they say, As Nebrod the giant hunter before the Lord.
Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before God.
2 Chronicles 34:27
forasmuch as thy heart was ashamed, and thou was humbled before me when thou heardest my words against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, and thou wast humbled before me, and didst rend thy garments, and didst weep before me; I also have heard, saith the Lord.
Psalms 11:5
The Lord tries the righteous and the ungodly: and he that loves unrighteousness hates his own soul.
Psalms 55:9
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen iniquity and gain saying in the city.
Psalms 140:11
A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction.
Isaiah 60:18
And injustice shall no more be heard in thy land, nor destruction nor misery in thy coasts; but thy walls shall be called Salvation, and thy gates Sculptured Work.

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.


 
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