Daniel 6:22

Daniel explains that God sent His angel to shut the lions' mouths because he was found innocent. He credits his rescue entirely to God and affirms his blamelessness.

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• Heb 11:33who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
• 2 Tim 4:17But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Acts 12:11When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
• Ps 91:11–13For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
• Acts 24:16Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
• 1 Jn 3:19–21And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
• Ps 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
• Dan 3:28Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
• Mic 7:7But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
• Num 20:16When we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.
• Ps 31:14But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”
• 1 Sam 17:37David said, “Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go! Yahweh will be with you.”
• Dan 6:23Then was the king exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
• Acts 27:23For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,
• Ps 38:21Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.
• 2 Chr 32:21Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own bowels killed him there with the sword.
• Ps 118:28You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.
• Ps 34:7Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
• Isa 3:10Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
• Dan 6:20When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel, Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?
• Isa 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
• John 20:17–18Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
• Ps 18:19–24He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
• 2 Sam 22:7In my distress, I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears.
• Ps 7:1–4A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
• Gen 40:15For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”
• 1 Sam 26:18He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?
• Ps 26:6I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh;
• 2 Cor 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
• 1 Sam 24:9–11David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’
• Matt 27:46About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
• Acts 25:8–11while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”

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