Daniel 6:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

1 Kings 21:27

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

Esther 6:1

On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

Job 21:12

They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

Psalm 137:2

Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps

Psalm 77:4

Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, concubines very many.

Lamentations 3:53

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.

Daniel 10:3

I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

Daniel 2:1

And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.

Daniel 6:19

Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.

Revelation 18:22

And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;