Daniel 6:21

Updated Bible Version

Then said Daniel to the king, O king, live forever.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Daniel spoke with the king: “May the king live forever.

Hebrew Names Version
Then said Daniyel to the king, O king, live forever.

King James Version
Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.

English Standard Version
Then Daniel said to the king, "O king, live forever!

New American Standard Bible
Then Daniel spoke to the king, "O king, live forever!

New Century Version
Daniel answered, "O king, live forever!

Amplified Bible
Then Daniel spoke to the king, "O king, live forever!

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then saide Daniel vnto the King, O King, liue for euer.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Daniel spoke to the king, "O king, live forever!

Berean Standard Bible
Then Daniel replied, "O king, may you live forever!

Contemporary English Version
Daniel answered, "Your Majesty, I hope you live forever!

Complete Jewish Bible
On approaching the pit where Dani'el was, the king cried in a pained voice to Dani'el, "Dani'el, servant of the living God! Has your God, whom you are always serving, been able to save you from the lions?"

Darby Translation
Then Daniel spoke unto the king, O king, live for ever!

Easy-to-Read Version
Daniel answered, "King, live forever!

George Lamsa Translation
Then Daniel spoke to the king and said, O king, live for ever!

Good News Translation
Daniel answered, "May Your Majesty live forever!

Lexham English Bible
Then Daniel spoke to the king, "O king, live forever!

Literal Translation
Then Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Daniel sayde vnto the kynge: O kynge, God saue thy life for euer:

American Standard Version
Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.

Bible in Basic English
Then Daniel said to the king, O King, have life for ever.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
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?'

King James Version (1611)
Then said Daniel vnto the king, O king, liue for euer.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then Daniel saide vnto the king: O king, liue for euer.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Daniel said to the king, O king, live for ever.

English Revised Version
Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.

World English Bible
Then said Daniel to the king, O king, live forever.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Danyel answeride the kyng, and seide, King, lyue thou with outen ende.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then said Daniel to the king, O king, live for ever.

New English Translation
Then Daniel spoke to the king, "O king, live forever!

New King James Version
Then Daniel said to the king, "O king, live forever!

New Living Translation
Daniel answered, "Long live the king!

New Life Bible
Then Daniel said to the king, "O king, live forever!

New Revised Standard
Daniel then said to the king, "O king, live forever!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then, Daniel, with the king, spake, - O king! for ages, live!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Daniel answering the king, said: O king, live for ever:

Revised Standard Version
Then Daniel said to the king, "O king, live for ever!

Young's Literal Translation
Then Daniel hath spoken with the king: `O king, to the ages live:

THE MESSAGE
"O king, live forever!" said Daniel. "My God sent his angel, who closed the mouths of the lions so that they would not hurt me. I've been found innocent before God and also before you, O king. I've done nothing to harm you."

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him. ¹⁹ Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in a hurry to the den of lions. ²⁰ And when he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel, O Daniel, slave of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions? ²¹ Then said Daniel to the king, O king, live forever. ²² My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me; since before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no hurt. ²³ Then the king was 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 on him, because he had trusted in his God. ²⁴ And the king commanded, and they brought those [prominent] men that had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O king: Daniel 6:6, Daniel 2:4, Nehemiah 2:3

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 16:16 - God save the king 1 Kings 1:31 - Let my 2 Kings 11:12 - and said Ezra 5:7 - all peace Daniel 3:9 - O King Daniel 5:10 - O king

Cross-References

Job 38:41
Who provides for the raven his prey, When his young ones cry to God, [And] wander for lack of food?

Job 40:20
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field play.

Psalms 35:6
Let their way be dark and slippery, And the angel of Yahweh pursuing them.

Psalms 136:25
Who gives food to all flesh; For his loving-kindness [endures] forever.

Psalms 145:16
You open your hand, And satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Psalms 147:9
He gives to the beast his food, [And] to the young ravens which cry.

Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the heaven, that they do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you of much more value then they?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said Daniel unto the king,.... Whose voice he knew, though the tone of it was so much altered:

O king, live for ever; he does not reproach him for delivering him into the hands of his enemies, and suffering him to be cast into that place, which he might have prevented, had he had more resolution; he knew it was done with reluctance, though with weakness; which he does not upbraid him with, but freely forgives him, and wishes him health, long life, and prosperity.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live forever - The common form of salutation in addressing the king. See the note at Daniel 2:4. There might be more than mere form in this, for Daniel may have been aware of the true source of the calamities that had come upon him, and of the innocence of the king in the matter; and he doubtless recalled the interest which the king had shown in him when about to be cast into the den of lions, and his expression of confidence that his God would be able to deliver him Daniel 6:16, and he could not but have been favorably impressed by the solicitude which the monarch now showed for his welfare in thus early visiting him, and by his anxiety to know whether he were still alive.