Daniel 6:24 New English Translation
24 The king gave another order,[a] and those men who had maliciously accused[b] Daniel were brought and thrown[c] into the lions’ den—they, their children, and their wives.[d] They did not even reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
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- Daniel 6:24 tn Aram “said.”
- Daniel 6:24 tn Aram “had eaten the pieces of.” The Aramaic expression is ironic, in that the accusers who had figuratively “eaten the pieces of Daniel” are themselves literally devoured by the lions.
- Daniel 6:24 tn The Aramaic active impersonal verb is often used as a substitute for the passive.
- Daniel 6:24 tc The LXX specifies only the two overseers, together with their families, as those who were cast into the lions’ den.
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