¹⁶Then the king gave the command, and Daniel was brought in and they threw him into the lion pit.ⁿ The king said^o to Daniel, “Your God, whom you serve faithfully,^p may he rescue you!” ¹⁷And a^q stone was brought and it was put on the entrance of the pit, and the king sealed it with his signet ring and with the signet rings of his lords,^r so that nothing would be changed concerning Daniel. ¹⁸Then the king went to his palace and spent the night in fasting, and no food was brought in before him and his sleep fled from him.

¹⁹Then the king got up at daybreak, at first light, and he went in haste^s to the lion pit.^t ²⁰And when he came near^u to the pit, he cried out to Daniel with a distressed voice, and the king spoke^v and said to Daniel, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, your God whom you serve faithfully, was he able to rescue you from the lions?” ²¹Then Daniel spoke to^w the king, “O king, live forever!^x ²²My God sent his angel and he shut the mouth of the lions and they did not^y hurt me, because^z before him I was found^a blameless, and also before you, O king, I have not done any wrong.”

²³Then the king was exceedingly glad over it^b and commanded that Daniel be lifted up from the pit; and there was not any wound found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

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Daniel 6:16: Then the king commanded, and Daniel was brought and cast into the den of lions. The king declared to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!”

Footnotes

nLiterally “pit of lions”
oLiterally “The king answered and saying”
pLiterally “in the loyalty”
qAramaic “one”
rOr “nobles”
sLiterally “to hasten”
tLiterally “pit of lions”
uLiterally “as coming near him”
vLiterally “answered”
wAramaic “with”
xLiterally “unto endless ages”
yAramaic “would not”
zLiterally “all of because that”
aLiterally “it was found for me”
bThat is, the situation