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Literal Standard Version

Daniel 6:11

Then these men have assembled, and found Daniel praying and pleading grace before 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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.
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

11Then these men have assembled, and found Daniel praying and pleading grace before his God;12then they have come near, indeed, they are saying before the king concerning the king's interdict: "Have you not signed an interdict, that any man who seeks from any god and man until thirty days, except of you, O king, is cast into a den of lions?" The king has answered and said, "The thing [is] certain as a law of Media and Persia, that does not pass away." 13Then they have answered, indeed, they are saying before the king, that, "Daniel, who [is] of the sons of the expulsion of Judah, has not placed on you, O king, [any] regard, nor on the interdict that you have signed, and three times in a day he is seeking his petition." 14Then the king, when he has heard the matter, is greatly displeased at himself, and on Daniel he has set the heart to deliver him, and until the going up of the sun he was arranging to deliver him. 15Then these men have assembled near the king, and are saying to the king, "Know, O king, that the law of Media and Persia [is] that any interdict and statute that the king establishes is not to be changed." 16Then the king has spoken, and they have brought Daniel, and have cast [him] into a den of lions. The king has answered and said to Daniel, "Your God, whom you are serving continually, delivers you Himself." 17And a stone has been brought and placed at the mouth of the den, and the king has sealed it with his signet, and with the signet of his great men, that the purpose is not changed concerning 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 it comes to pass that mankind has begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,
Genesis 6:2
and the sons of God see that they, the daughters of men, [are] beautiful, and they take women for themselves of all whom they have chosen.
Genesis 7:1
And YHWH says to Noah, "Come, you and all your house, into the Ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before Me in this generation;
Genesis 10:9
he has begun to be a hero in the land; he has been a hero in hunting before YHWH; therefore it is said, "As Nimrod the hero [in] hunting before YHWH."
Genesis 13:13
and the men of Sodom [are] evil, and sinners before YHWH exceedingly.
2 Chronicles 34:27
Because your heart [is] tender, and you are humbled before God in your hearing His words concerning this place and concerning its inhabitants, and are humbled before Me, and tear your garments, and weep before Me, indeed, I have also heard [you]—a declaration of YHWH.
Psalms 11:5
YHWH tries the righteous. And the wicked and the lover of violence, || His soul has hated,
Psalms 55:9
Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, || For I saw violence and strife in a city.
Psalms 140:11
A talkative man is not established in the earth, || One of violence—evil hunts to overflowing.
Isaiah 60:18
Violence is not heard in your land anymore, || Spoiling and destruction in your borders, || And you have called your walls Salvation, || And your gates 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.


 
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