Daniel 6:6 (KJV)

Passage

Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.

Nearby Context

Daniel 6:4 Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

Daniel 6:5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

Daniel 6:6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.

Daniel 6:7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

Daniel 6:8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "presidents", "princes", "assembled", "together", "king", "said", and "thus". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "presidents" and "princes", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "Then said these men We shall not..." into verse 7's "All the presidents of the kingdom the...", so "presidents" and "princes" belong inside that flow. In Daniel context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "presidents" and "princes" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.