Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.

General references

Bible References

And they brought

Deuteronomy 19:18
The judges are to make a careful investigation, and if the witness turns out to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,
Esther 7:10
They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger subsided.
Esther 9:25
But when the matter was brought before the king, he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.
Proverbs 11:8
The righteous one is rescued from trouble;
in his place, the wicked one goes in.

Their children

Deuteronomy 24:16
“Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers; each person will be put to death for his own sin.
Joshua 7:24
Then Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, and the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his ox, donkey, and sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and brought them up to the Valley of Achor.
2 Kings 14:6
However, he did not put the children of the murderers to death, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses where the Lord commanded, “Fathers must not be put to death because of children, and children must not be put to death because of fathers; instead, each one will be put to death for his own sin.”
Esther 9:10
They killed these 10 sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. However, they did not seize any plunder.

The lions

Daniel 3:22
Since the king’s command was so urgent and the furnace extremely hot, the raging flames killed those men who carried Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego up.
Psalm 54:5
He will repay my adversaries for their evil.
Because of Your faithfulness, annihilate them.
Isaiah 38:13
I thought until the morning:
He will break all my bones like a lion;
You make an end of me day and night.

General references

Psalm 34:20
He protects all his bones;
not one of them is broken.
Proverbs 11:8
The righteous one is rescued from trouble;
in his place, the wicked one goes in.

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