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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Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens.
He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.
The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.
Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. [Now] the king spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you. A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"
He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!"
(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the 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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Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens.
when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.
For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;