Daniel 6:24

Modern English Version

Then the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions—them, their children, and their wives. And the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces before they came to the bottom of the den.

Cross References

2 Kings 14:6

But he did not kill the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, in which the Lord commanded, “Fathers must not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers. Rather, a man should be put to death for his own sin.”

Esther 7:10

Then the king said, “Hang him on it!” So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Esther 9:10

These were the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, whom they killed, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

Esther 9:25

But when Esther came before the king, he ordered by letter that the wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Psalm 54:5

He will repay my enemies for their evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.

Proverbs 11:8

The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked walks into it instead.

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who speaks lies will perish.

Isaiah 38:13

I composed my soul until morning, like a lion, so He breaks all my bones; from day even to night You make an end of me.

Jeremiah 34:17

Therefore thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming liberty, everyone to his brother and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim a liberty to you, says the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Daniel 3:22

Therefore, because the king’s commandment was urgent and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Deuteronomy 24:16

Fathers may not be put to death for the sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.