Daniel 6:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Albert 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...

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 6. Daniel in the Den of Lions. After giving an account of the reorganisation of the empire by Darius after the fall of Babylon, this chapter...

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here Daniel answers the king moderately and softly, although he had been cast into the cave by his command. He might have deservedly been angry...

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

O king, live for ever— לעלמין lealmin, in saecula, or "long live the king;" an usual mode of addressing the monarch. When he in his turn addresse...

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Den of Lions Darius the Mede divides his kingdom into 120 satrapies, the whole being superintended by three higher officials, of whom Daniel w...

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

STOPPING THE MOUTHS OF LIONS ON the view which regards these pictures as powerful parables, rich in spiritual instructiveness, but not primarily c...

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Persecuted for Righteousness' Sake” Daniel 6:16-28 The plot was an atrocious one, but it hurt its perpetrators more than the victim of their v...

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The last section in the historic portion of the Book is in the reign of Darius. He reorganized the government and distributed the administration amon...

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Behold, Reader! what a mighty change! Who so apparently forlorn and wretched as faithful Daniel, when cast into the lion's den: who so blessed when t...

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever. Ver. 21. O king, live for ever. ] Daniel doth not curse the king (as some impatient spiri...

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then said Daniel Daniel knew the king's voice, though it was now a doleful voice, and spake to him with all the deference and respect that was due...

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Daniel's Preservation and Deliverance. B. C. 537....

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He prays for the king's prosperity, though he suffered under his hand.

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Then Daniel said to the king, “O king live for ever. My God has sent his messenger and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me, becaus...

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Daniel 6:21-23 I. This story illustrates the fact that God often seems to crown the machinations of the wicked against the good with success. II....

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Daniel 6:1-3 . It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; And over these thre...

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel 6:2 . Three presidents, of whom Daniel was the first. His former celebrity had spread through the east. Ezekiel 14 . It being now sixty fi...

The Biblical Illustrator

My Lord hath sent His Angel. Daniel’s Marvellous Deliverances These words are Daniel’s religious and thankful acknowledgment of his deliverance...

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Daniel 6:1-27 DANIEL IN THE LIONS ' DEN . Daniel 6:1-27 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and...

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Daniel's Remarkable Deliverance

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Then said Daniel unto the king, calmly answering the king from his position down in the pit, O king, live forever!

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 2:4 ; Daniel 6:6 ; Nehemiah 2:3

Wells of Living Water Commentary

A Man of Affairs Selections from Daniel 6:1-28 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In a previous study, we observed Daniel as a seer. Here we will see him...