And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
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Gill's Exposition
Then said Daniel unto the king,.... Whose voice he knew, though the tone of it was so much altered:
O king, live for ever; he does not reproach him for delivering him into the hands of his enemies,…
Barnes' Notes
He cried with a lamentable voice - A voice full of anxious solicitude. Literally, “a voice of grief.” Such a cry would be natural on such an occasion. O Daniel, servant of the living God - The God who…
Adam Clarke
He cried with a lamentable voice - His heart, full of grief, affected his speech.
Servant of the living God - The king was convinced that, unless his God saved him, his destruction was inevitable.
Here is, I. The melancholy night which the king had, upon Daniel's account, Dan 6:18. He had said, indeed, that God would deliver him out of the danger, but at the same time he could not forgive…
Cambridge Bible
when he came as he drew near.
with a lamentable voice or, with a pained voice. The same expression (with an inappreciable difference of form) occurs in the Targ. (Ps.-Jon.) of Exo 12:31, and in that…
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