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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And the beast shall go into the covert, and shall dwell in its habitation.
He will lie in wait in secret as the lion in her den: he will lie in wait to catch the poor one: he will catch the poor one in drawing him into his net
The sun shall rise, they will be gathered together, and in their dens they will lie down.
And the suckling was delighted upon the hole of the asp, and upon the viper's deu the weaned directed his hand.
At that time the king said, and they brought Daniel and cast into the den of the lions; the king answered and said to Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest to him continually, he will set thee free. And one stone was brought and set upon the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his signet ring, and with the signet ring of his nobles, that the will shall not be changed upon Daniel.
And he says to them, It was written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; and ye have made it a den of robbers.
And he taught, saying to them, Has it not been written, That my house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations and ye made it a den of robbers.
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) wandering about in solitary places, and mountains, and caves, and holes of the earth.
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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And the beast shall go into the covert, and shall dwell in its habitation.
For they will sink down in the dwellings; they will dwell in the thicket to lie in wait
He will lie in wait in secret as the lion in her den: he will lie in wait to catch the poor one: he will catch the poor one in drawing him into his net
And the suckling was delighted upon the hole of the asp, and upon the viper's deu the weaned directed his hand.
For the fortress was left, the multitude of the city was forsaken; the hill and the watch-tower for caves even forever; the rejoicing of the wild asses a pasture of the flocks;