Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Daniel 6:22 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 22. 22My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
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Quick Meaning
Daniel 6:22 contributes this concrete line to the movement: “My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not…”.
Read It With
- Daniel 6:19–23
Read Daniel 6:22 with 6:19–23. Daniel 6:22 advances “Daniel Is Found Alive” with the textual step “My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not…”. 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
This boundary keeps “Daniel Is Found Alive” together inside the larger chapter movement and prevents the next scene or disclosure from being flattened into it. At Daniel 6:22, the wording “My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not…” supplies this verse's distinct step.
Follow the Context
- Read the opening words of Daniel 6:19-23 as the entry into “Daniel Is Found Alive.”
- At dawn Daniel credits an angel with shutting the lions' mouths, claims innocence in the charge, and emerges without injury.
- Let verse 23 complete this movement before moving to 6:24.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
Daniel's innocence does not mean he was sinless.
What Remains True
Rescue of an innocent person should not become permission to victimize other innocent people. Daniel 6:22 contributes the concrete textual step “My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not…”.
How It Can Shape Life
- Celebrate release while resisting retaliation that expands guilt through families, ethnicity, association, or collective labels. Keep Daniel 6:22 inside 6:19–23 and do not convert its wording into an unsupported modern identification.
Teach It Back
Explain Daniel 6:22's role in 6:19–23. Name the ancient setting, quote or paraphrase “My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not…”, state one material uncertainty, and name one conclusion the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Daniel 6:19-23 — Daniel Is Found AliveSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Daniel 6:22 must be read with this unit-level uncertainty: Interpreters may defend, explain, critique, or bracket the collective execution. This package names it as narrative violence and refuses to derive a norm from it.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
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
Open source ↗