Daniel 6:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no entertainment was brought to him, and sleep fled from him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Then the king went to his palace and passed the night fasting, neither were instruments of music or dancing girls brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ The king then went home to his palace and fasted through the night. No pleasures were brought to him, and he couldn’t sleep.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And the king departed into his house, and he went to bed without eating, and food was not set before him, moreover, even sleep fled from him.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁸ Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no diversions were brought to him, and sleep fled from him.

Daniel 6:18 Cross References

2 Samuel 19:24

Mephibosheth grandson of Saul came down to meet the king; he had not taken care of his feet or trimmed his beard or washed his clothes from the day the king left until the day he came back in safety.

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his bare flesh; he fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.

Esther 6:1

On that night the king could not sleep, and he gave orders to bring the book of records, the annals, and they were read to the king.

Job 21:12

They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

Psalm 137:2

On the willows there we hung up our harps.

Psalm 77:4

You keep my eyelids from closing; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and delights of the flesh, many concubines.

Lamentations 3:53

they flung me alive into a pit and hurled stones on me;

Daniel 10:3

I had eaten no rich food, no meat or wine had entered my mouth, and I had not anointed myself at all, for the full three weeks.

Daniel 2:1

In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed such dreams that his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him.

Daniel 6:19

Then at dawn, the king got up and at first light hurried to the den of lions.

Revelation 18:22

and the sound of harpists and entertainers and of flutists and trumpeters will be heard in you no more, and an artisan of any trade will be found in you no more, and the sound of the millstone will be heard in you no more,