Daniel 6:7 Cross References - ISV

⁷ All of the royal administrators, prefects, regional authorities, scribes, and governors have concluded that the king should establish and enforce an edict that anyone who prays to any god or man for the next 30 days (except to you, your majesty) is to be thrown into the lions’ pit.

² As the kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers conspire together against the LORD and his anointed one, they say,

⁹ Their eyes secretly watch the helpless, lying in wait like a lion in his den. They lie in wait to catch the afflicted. They catch the afflicted when they pull him into their net.

³ Look, they lie in ambush for my life; these violent men gather together against me, but not because of any transgression or sin of mine, LORD.

⁴ They plan to cast him down from his exalted position. They delight in lies; their mouth utters blessings, while their heart is cursing. Interlude

² Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the mob of those who practice evil, ³ who sharpen their tongues like swords, and aim their bitter words like arrows, ⁴ shooting at the innocent from concealment. Suddenly they shoot, fearing nothing. ⁵ They concoct an evil scheme for themselves; they enumerate their hidden snares; they say, “Who will see them?” ⁶ They devise wicked schemes, saying, “We have completed our plans, hiding them deep in our hearts.”

¹ A song. A Psalm of Asaph
A Plea for Judgment God, do not rest! Don’t be silent! Don’t stay inactive, God! ² See! Your enemies rage; those who hate you issue threats. ³ They plot against your people and conspire against your cherished ones.

²⁰ Will destructive national leaders, who plan wicked things through misuse of the Law, be allied with you?

² Then King Nebuchadnezzar summoned the regional authorities, governors, deputy governors, advisors, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all of the other administrators of the provinces, ordering them to come to the dedication of the statue that he had erected.

⁶ Anyone who does not fall down and worship is immediately to be thrown into the blazing fire furnace.”

¹¹ Whoever does not fall down and worship is to be thrown into a blazing fire furnace.’

²⁷ The regional authorities, viceroys, governors, and royal advisors gazed at those men and saw that the fire had no effect on their bodies—not a hair on their head was singed, their clothes were not burned, and they did not smell of fire.

² along with three chief administrators from them, one of which was Daniel. The regional authorities reported to these three administrators, so that the king would experience no losses. ³ Daniel distinguished himself among all the administrators and regional authorities, because he was of an extraordinary spirit. Therefore the king planned to appoint him over the whole kingdom.

⁵ “My people, recall how king Balak of Moab deliberated, and how Beor’s son Balaam counseled him from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the righteousness of the LORD.”

¹² This lion renders its prey to pieces to feed its whelps, and strangles enough prey for its mate, filling its lairs with prey and its dens with rendered flesh.

¹⁴ The Pharisees, however, went out and plotted against Jesus to kill him.

⁴ They conspired to arrest Jesus by treachery and to kill him.

¹ Jesus is Taken to Pilate
As soon as it was morning, the high priests convened a meeting with the elders and scribes and the whole Council. They bound Jesus with chains, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.

¹⁰ So the high priests planned to kill Lazarus, too,

⁵ The next day, their rulers, elders, and scribes met in Jerusalem ⁶ with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and the rest of the high priest’s family. ⁷ They made Peter and John stand in front of them and began asking, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”

²⁶ The kings of the earth take their stand, and rulers meet together against the Lord and against his Messiah.’
²⁷ For in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate actually met together with unbelievers and the people of Israel to oppose your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, ²⁸ to carry out everything that your hand and will had predetermined to take place.