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Daniel 6:20 Explained in Context
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Verse 20. 20And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake 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?
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Quick Meaning
Daniel 6:20 develops this movement with “And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and…”.
Read It With
- Daniel 6:19–23
Read Daniel 6:20 with 6:19–23. Daniel 6:20 develops this movement with “And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and…”. The complete unit establishes this movement: At dawn Daniel credits an angel with shutting the lions' mouths, claims innocence in the charge, and emerges without injury.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The narrative pairs genuine deliverance with collective retaliatory violence that must not be copied, softened, or celebrated. “Daniel Is Found Alive” opens that larger movement. Its final verse prepares “Imperial Retaliation Kills Whole Families” in 6:24. Within that movement: Daniel 6:20 develops this movement with “And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and…”.
What Remains True
Rescue of an innocent person should not become permission to victimize other innocent people. Daniel 6:19-23 keeps that truth tied to this claim: At dawn Daniel credits an angel with shutting the lions' mouths, claims innocence in the charge, and emerges without injury. In this unit: Daniel 6:20 develops this movement with “And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and…”.
How It Can Shape Life
- Celebrate release while resisting retaliation that expands guilt through families, ethnicity, association, or collective labels. In Daniel 6:19-23, respond specifically to this movement: At dawn Daniel credits an angel with shutting the lions' mouths, claims innocence in the charge, and emerges without injury. For Daniel 6:20 specifically, keep this reviewed contribution in view: develops this movement with “And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and…”. Read it inside 6:19–23; do not convert its wording into an unsupported modern identification.
Continue in Context
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Read Daniel 6:19-23 — Daniel Is Found AliveSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Daniel 6:19-23, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew aramaic text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Daniel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew-Aramaic wording, morphology, language boundary, names, repeated roots, clauses, and lexical controls.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Dan.xml, 6:19-23; Hebrew 1:1–2:4a and 8:1–12:13, Aramaic 2:4b–7:28
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Daniel with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level Hebrew-Aramaic, textual, historical, translation, chronology, angelic-language, and duration notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Daniel PDF, printed pp. 1655–1657, translation and translator notes on 6:19-23
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