Daniel 6:10
Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
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Study Note
Daniel's practice of praying three times daily with windows open toward Jerusalem despite the royal decree was neither defiance for its own sake nor political protest, but the continuance of a personal discipline that could not be interrupted by human decree. The three daily prayer times reflect Psalm 55:17 and point toward early Jewish liturgical practice that shaped the Christian canonical hours. Jerusalem as prayer-orientation (cf. 1 Kings 8:48; Jonah 2:4) represents covenant memory and eschatological longing, grounding Daniel's petition in the promises of Deuteronomy and Solomon's temple prayer. The narrative functions as a paradigm for religious conscience standing against state power, widely applied in Christian martyr theology.
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And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem); and he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
And Daniel, when he hath known that the writing is signed, hath gone up to his house, and the window being opened for him, in his upper chamber, over-against Jerusalem, three times in a day he is kneeling on his knees, and praying, and confessing before his God, because that he was doing <FI>it<Fi> before this.
And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.
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