. The Bible panorama, or The Holy Scriptures in picture and story. at no food, but passedthe night fasting. Neither were the instruments of music played before him asat other times; and he could not sleep. And he arose very early in the morningand came in haste to the den of lions, and cried with a mournful voice untoDaniel, saying, O Daniel, thou servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thouservest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions ? Then said Daniel to theking, O king, live forever. My God has sent his angel, and shut the lions1 mouthsthat they have not hurt me, because I h
. The Bible panorama, or The Holy Scriptures in picture and story. at no food, but passedthe night fasting. Neither were the instruments of music played before him asat other times; and he could not sleep. And he arose very early in the morningand came in haste to the den of lions, and cried with a mournful voice untoDaniel, saying, O Daniel, thou servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thouservest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions ? Then said Daniel to theking, O king, live forever. My God has sent his angel, and shut the lions1 mouthsthat they have not hurt me, because I have not sinned against him; and also,unto thee, O king, I have done no wrong. Then was the king exceedingly gladfor him, and he commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. And the king commanded, and they brought those men -who had spoken against Daniel, and cast them into the den of lions—them, their children, and their wives—and the lions leaped on them, and broke all their bones in pieces, as soon as they came into the bottom of the den. 192. DAXIEL IN THE DEX OF EIOXS. 13 103 Daniel VI. 16. The Jews Go Back to Jerusalem. 7VFTER seventy years, that the Jews were to spend in captivity had passed,V^\ the time came for them to go back to their own land. Therefore Godmade Cyrus, who was king in Babylon, willing to let them go. Thenthose words came true which the prophet Isaiah spoke, when he was alive,saying, That God would raise up a great king, named Cyrus, who would sendthe people back to build up Jerusalem and the temple again. It had beennearly two hundred years since Isaiah spoke those words. Cyrus was not bornat that time; neither had the Jews yet been sent away from their own God knew of all that would happen, and he told his prophet to foretellthese things. And king Cyrus made a proclamation, or decree, and sent it through all hiskingdom, saying, Thus saitli Cyrus, king of Persia, The Lord has commanded meto build up his house in Jerusalem. Wh
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