Reference: Den
Easton
a lair of wild beasts (Ps 10:9; 104:22; Job 37:8); the hole of a venomous reptile (Isa 11:8); a recess for secrecy "in dens and caves of the earth" (Heb 11:38); a resort of thieves (Mt 21:13; Mr 11:17). Daniel was cast into "the den of lions" (Da 6:16-17). Some recent discoveries among the ruins of Babylon have brought to light the fact that the practice of punishing offenders against the law by throwing them into a den of lions was common.
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The wild animals enter [their] lairs and stay in their dens.
He lurks in secret like a lion in a thicket. He lurks in order to seize the afflicted. He seizes the afflicted and drags him in his net.
An infant will play beside the cobra's pit, and a toddler will put his hand into a snake's den.
So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions' den. The king said to Daniel, "May your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!" A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den. The king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signet rings of his nobles, so that nothing in regard to Daniel could be changed.
And He said to them, "It is written, My house will be called a house of prayer. But you are making it a den of thieves !"
Then He began to teach them: "Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations ? But you have made it a den of thieves !"
The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts, mountains, caves, and holes in the ground.
Hastings
The five Heb. words represented by 'den' signify respectively 'hollow place' (Isa 32:14), 'thicket' (Ps 10:9), 'place of ambush' (Job 37:8), 'dwelling' (Job 38:40), 'light hole' or 'eyeball' (Isa 11:8); but the last passage, may be corrupt.
J. Taylor.
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The wild animals enter [their] lairs and stay in their dens.
He lurks in secret like a lion in a thicket. He lurks in order to seize the afflicted. He seizes the afflicted and drags him in his net.
An infant will play beside the cobra's pit, and a toddler will put his hand into a snake's den.
For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become barren places forever, the joy of wild donkeys, and a pasture for flocks,