Daniel 6:18
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New International Version (©1984)
Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night fasting. He refused his usual entertainment and couldn't sleep at all that night.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no diversions were brought to him, and sleep fled from him.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the king went off to his palace and spent the night fasting, and no entertainment was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then the king went to his palace and spent the night without food or company. He couldn't get to sleep.

King James Bible
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.

American King James Version
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep went from him.

American Standard Version
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.

Bible in Basic English
Then the king went to his great house, and took no food that night, and no ... were placed before him, and his sleep went from him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king went away to his house and laid himself down without taking supper, and meat was not set before him, and even sleep departed from him.

Darby Bible Translation
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were concubines brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

English Revised Version
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep went from him.

World English Bible
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.

Young's Literal Translation
Then hath the king gone to his palace, and he hath passed the night fasting, and dahavan have not been brought up before him, and his sleep hath fled from off him.

Geneva Study Bible

Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.

King James Translators' Notes

instruments...: or, table

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

18. neither were instruments of music, &c.-Gesenius translates, "concubines." Daniel's mentioning to us as an extraordinary thing of Darius, that he neither approached his table nor his harem, agrees with Xenophon's picture of him as devoted to wine and women, vain, and without self-control. He is sorry for the evil which he himself had caused, yet takes no steps to remedy it. There are many such halters between good and bad, who are ill at ease in their sins, yet go forward in them, and are drawn on by others.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:18-24 The best way to have a good night, is to keep a good conscience. We are sure of what the king doubted, that the servants of the living God have a Master well able to protect them. See the power of God over the fiercest creatures, and believe his power to restrain the roaring lion that goeth about continually seeking to devour. Daniel was kept perfectly safe, because he believed in his God. Those who boldly and cheerfully trust in God to protect them in the way of duty, shall always find him a present help. Thus the righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead. The short triumph of the wicked will end in their ruin.


2 Samuel 12:16 David therefore inquired of God for the child; and David fasted and went and lay all night on the ground.
2 Samuel 12:17 The elders of his household stood beside him in order to raise him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat food with them.
Esther 6:1 During that night the king could not sleep so he gave an order to bring the book of records, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.
Psalm 77:4 You have held my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Daniel 2:1 Now in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him. (NASB ©1995)

Concubines Eating Entertainment Fasting Fled Food Great House Instruments Music Musick Night Palace Passed Sleep Spent

Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.

and passed. 2Sa 12:16,17 19:24 1Ki 21:27 Job 21:12 Ps 137:2 Ec 2:8 Isa 24:8,9 Am 6:4-6 Jon 3:3-9 Re 18:22

instruments. or, table. and. 2:1 Es 6:1 Ps 77:4

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