RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

about sixty-two years old.
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It pleased Daryawesh to set over the malchut a
hundred twenty nobles, who would be over the whole
malchut;
2 And over these three governors; of whom Daniyel was
one: so that the nobles might give account to them, and
the melech should suffer no loss.
3 So Daniyel excelled above the governors and nobles,
because an excellent Ruach was in him; and the melech
thought about setting him over the whole malchut.
4 Then the governors and nobles sought to find an
occasion against Daniyel concerning the malchut; but
they could find no occasion nor fault; because he was
faithful, neither was there any error, or fault found in him.
5 Then said these men, We shall not find any wrongdoing
in Daniyel, except we find it against him concerning the
Torah of his tvkt.
6 Then these governors and nobles assembled together to
the melech, and said this to him, Melech Daryawesh, live
le-olam-va-ed.
7 All the governors of the malchut, the governors, and the
nobles, the counselors, and the captains, have consulted
together to establish a royal decree, and to make a firm
decree, that whoever shall ask a petition from any tvkt,
or man for thirty days, except you, O melech, he shall be
cast into a den of lions.
8 Now, O melech, establish the decree, and sign the edict,
that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes
and Persians, which changes not.
9 So melech Daryawesh signed the writing and the
decree.
10 Now when Daniyel knew that the writing was signed,
he went into his bayit; and his windows being open in his
room toward Yahrushalayim, he kneeled upon his knees
three times a day, 2714 and made tefillah, and gave hodu
before his tvkt, as he did before.
11 Then these men assembled, and found Daniyel praying
and making supplication before his tvkt.
12 Then they came near, and spoke before the melech
concerning the melech's decree; Did you not sign a
decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any
tvkt, or man within thirty days, except you, O melech,
shall be cast into the den of lions? The melech answered
and said, The thing is emet, according to the law of the
Medes and Persians, which changes not.
13 Then they answered and said before the melech, That
Daniyel, which is of the children of the captivity of
Yahudah, 2715 does not regard you, O melech, nor the
decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three
times a day.
14 Then the melech, when he heard these words, was very
displeased within himself, and set his lev against Daniyel
to deliver him: and he labored until the going down of the
sun to deliver him.
15 Then these men assembled to the melech, and said to
the melech, Know, O melech, that the law of the Medes
and Persians is, That no decree which the melech
establishes can be changed.
16 Then the melech gave the command, and they brought
Daniyel, and cast him into a den of lions. Now the melech
spoke and said to Daniyel, your tvkt whom you serve
continually, He will deliver you.
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17 And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of
the den; and the melech sealed it with his own signet, and
with the signet of his nobles; that the situation concerning
Daniyel may not be changed.
18 Then the melech went to his palace, and passed the
night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought
before him: and his sleep left him.
19 Then the melech arose very early in the morning, and
went in a hurry to the den of lions.
20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a pained
voice to Daniyel: and the melech spoke and said to
Daniyel, O Daniyel, eved of the living tvkt, is your
tvkt, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you
from the lions?
21 Then said Daniyel to the melech, O melech, live
le-olam-va-ed.
22 My tvkt has sent His Heavenly Messenger, and has
shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me:
forasmuch as before Him my innocence was found; and
also before you, O melech, have I done no harm.
23 Then was the melech exceedingly in simcha for him,
and commanded that they should take Daniyel up out of
the den. So Daniyel was taken up out of the den, and no
manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed
in his tvkt.
24 And the melech commanded, and they brought those
men who had accused Daniyel, and they cast them into
the den of lions, with their children, and their wives; and
the lions overpowered them, and broke all their bones in
pieces before they reached the bottom of the den.
25 Then melech Daryawesh wrote to all peoples, nations,
and languages, that dwell in all the olam; Shalom be
multiplied to you.
26 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my
malchut men tremble and fear before the tvkt of
Daniyel: for He is the living tvkt, steadfast
le-olam-va-ed, and His malchut shall not be destroyed,
and His dominion shall be even to the end of time.
27 He delivers and rescues, and He works signs and
wonders in the shamayim and in olam, and He has
delivered Daniyel from the power of the lions.
28 So Daniyel prospered in the malchut of Daryawesh,
and in the malchut of Koresh the Persian.
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In the first year of Belshatzar melech of Bavel Daniyel
had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he
wrote the dream, giving a summary of the matters.
2 Daniyel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night,
and, see, the four winds of the shamayim strove upon the
Great Sea.
3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, different
one from another.
4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I saw
until the wings of it were plucked, and it was lifted up
from the olam, and made to stand upon the feet as a man,
and a man's lev was given to it. 2716
5 And see another beast, a second, like a bear, and it
raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the
mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said this to it,
Arise, devour much flesh. 2717
6 After this I saw, and see another, like a leopard, which
had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast
had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. 2718