What Does Daniel 6:12 Mean in the King James?
Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The decree binds the king too: his own signed words turn his authority into a boundary he cannot cross.
THE MEANING
A word can bind the one who gives it: the king’s rule now makes a request to any god or person punishable by death, and confines his own authority within that rule. Its permanence serves the trap built against him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that power always lets you take your words back dissolves here: the king cannot step outside the decree he signed.
THE ROOT
אֱסָר
ʾĕsār
GROWS FROM
אסר
ʾ-s-r
To bind, tie, or make fast.
The Aramaic word translated “decree” carries the image of binding. Its force binds the people who ask, and the king who signs it is bound by the same words.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāsūr: Bound; forbidden.
אָסוּר
The decree’s force is a bond: it makes a request forbidden and leaves the king bound to the rule he established.
ʾāsîr: Prisoner; captive.
אָסִיר
The same root connects binding with captivity, foreshadowing the pit as the decree’s consequence for anyone who asks.
THE PATTERN
A confirmed word can bind the authority that gives it beyond the moment it is spoken.
Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.THE THREAD
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.The conspirators first urge the king to establish the same binding decree. Here they invoke its binding force to hold him inside the trap they have made.
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