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Daniel 6:25 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 25. 25Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
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Quick Meaning
Daniel 6:25 opens this movement with “Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth…”.
Read It With
- Daniel 6:25–28
Read Daniel 6:25 with 6:25–28. Daniel 6:25 opens this movement with “Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth…”. The complete unit establishes this movement: Darius commands fear before Daniel's living God, praises rescue, and the narrator carries Daniel's service into Cyrus's reign.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The final court decree summarizes God's superior kingdom and rescue, but its command remains imperial speech and the chronology prepares a deliberate narrative rewind. “Darius Praises the Living God” opens that larger movement. This completes the present movement before the next larger development: Chapter 7 turns back to Belshazzar's first year and shifts from third-person court tales to Daniel's first-person apocalyptic vision. Within that movement: Daniel 6:25 opens this movement with “Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth…”.
What Remains True
Stories of deliverance should direct attention beyond the beneficiary to the living source of justice and life, while coercive praise remains ethically limited. Daniel 6:25-28 keeps that truth tied to this claim: Darius commands fear before Daniel's living God, praises rescue, and the narrator carries Daniel's service into Cyrus's reign. In this unit: Daniel 6:25 opens this movement with “Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth…”.
How It Can Shape Life
- Share testimony without demanding that listeners perform your religious response under state or institutional pressure. In Daniel 6:25-28, respond specifically to this movement: Darius commands fear before Daniel's living God, praises rescue, and the narrator carries Daniel's service into Cyrus's reign. For Daniel 6:25 specifically, keep this reviewed contribution in view: opens this movement with “Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth…”. Read it inside 6:25–28; do not convert its wording into an unsupported modern identification.
Continue in Context
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Read Daniel 6:25-28 — Darius Praises the Living GodSources used for this Verse Lens
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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 6:25-28, 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, 6:25-28; 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 6:25-28
Open source ↗