Daniel 6 - Introduction

Daniel is made chief of the presidents: they, conspiring against him, obtain an idolatrous decree. Daniel, accused of the breach thereof, is cast into the lion's den. He is saved, his adversaries devoured, and God magnified by a decree.

Before Christ 538.

THIS chapter contains the history of Daniel's preferment under Darius, of the envy which it excited in the principal officers of the state, and their conspiracy against him on that account. By their means he is cast into a den of lions, but miraculously preserved from injury; and the punishment is retorted upon his accusers, who are torn to pieces, and the king is brought to the acknowledgment and praise of the true God.