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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius live for ever. All the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not The Babylonians entrusted their king with absolute power; hence he could will this or that as he chose. The Persians believed their kings to be possessed of perfect wisdom; and hence they never allowed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into the house; That is right; the less we have to do with man, and the more we have to do with God the better. He did not go to the king to complain, but he went into his house to tell his God about it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, That much-loved city, though now in ruins. Dan_6:10. He kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. ‘Twas bravely done. A man in a meaner position might have carried out his devotions in private without sin, but not so Daniel....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, That captive, that slave, that serf — so they seemed to put it, forgetting that he was their master by virtue of his high office.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day. Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, There was a little conscience left. Calvin does not like the man at all. He says, What right had he to sign a decree hastily, which might take away the lives of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him. Here was a great king, made himself out to be a god, and yet he cannot have his own way. When that famous potter, who was a true Christian, was brought before the king, the king said to him, “Unless you change your views, I shall be compelled...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed. This is the reason of his deliverance, not his innocency, but his faith; we are told by Paul that it was faith that shut the mouths of lions.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God, whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee. And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. And,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; We have sinned, and have committed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes; “I set my face unto the Lord God.” This expression is full of meaning. When men resolutely set their faces to prayer, bending their whole mind that way, seeking God, with their faces towards him, not in pretense, but in deep and solemn...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; You must have noticed how, in prayer, holy men of old were wont to vary the names of God. Here, we find Daniel addressing him as “the great and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. Daniel confesses the sins of the nation,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. It greatly increases sin when we sin against warnings sent from God. Daniel confesses this.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. O Lord, to us...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. This verse might be...