The Prosecution of Daniel
Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him. Dan. 6:14
sore displeased with... Note the contrast between this king and Nebuchadnezzar when his law was disobeyed (Dan. 3:13, 3:19). Darius was displeased with himself because he had been tricked into making such a law. He sought to deliver Daniel, laboring to do so all day, but the enemies of Daniel held the king to his law as one which could not be altered (Dan. 6:14-15).
Hearing their accusation against Daniel, whom they derisively belittled as one of the exiles from Judah (as Arioch and Belshazzar had done; cf. Dan. 2:25; 5:13), Darius was greatly distressed. Interestingly three kings in the Book of Daniel were distressed (cf. Dan. 2:1; 3:13; 5:6, 5:9).
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