Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Daniel 6:27 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 27. 27He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
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Quick Meaning
Daniel 6:27 contributes this concrete line to the movement: “He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who…”.
Read It With
- Daniel 6:25–28
Read Daniel 6:27 with 6:25–28. Daniel 6:27 advances “Darius Praises the Living God” with the textual step “He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who…”. 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
This boundary keeps “Darius Praises the Living God” together inside the larger chapter movement and prevents the next scene or disclosure from being flattened into it. At Daniel 6:27, the wording “He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who…” supplies this verse's distinct step.
Follow the Context
- Read the opening words of Daniel 6:25-28 as the entry into “Darius Praises the Living God.”
- Darius commands fear before Daniel's living God, praises rescue, and the narrator carries Daniel's service into Cyrus's reign.
- Let verse 28 complete this movement before moving to 7:1-8.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
Daniel's prosperity does not promise wealth or office to every faithful person.
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 6:27 contributes the concrete textual step “He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who…”.
How It Can Shape Life
- Share testimony without demanding that listeners perform your religious response under state or institutional pressure. Keep Daniel 6:27 inside 6:25–28 and do not convert its wording into an unsupported modern identification.
Teach It Back
Explain Daniel 6:27's role in 6:25–28. Name the ancient setting, quote or paraphrase “He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who…”, 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 6:25-28 — Darius Praises the Living GodSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Daniel 6:27 must be read with this unit-level uncertainty: The relation of Darius and Cyrus in verse 28 can be read as two rulers or, less likely, apposition. Historical identification remains unresolved.
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 6:25-28, 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 ↗