Daniel 6:18
Good News Translation
Then the king returned to the palace and spent a sleepless night, without food or any form of entertainment.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no food was brought to him, and sleep fled from him.

Contemporary English Version
All night long the king could not sleep. He did not eat anything, and he would not let anyone come in to entertain him.

New American Bible
Then the king returned to his palace for the night; he refused to eat and he dismissed the entertainers. Since sleep was impossible for him,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king went away to his house, and laid himself down without taking supper, and meat was not set before him, and even sleep departed from him.

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And the king went away to his house, and laid himself down without taking supper, and meat was not set before him, and even sleep departed from him.

and passed.

2 Samuel 12:16,17 And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a fast, and going in by himself lay upon the ground. . . .

2 Samuel 19:24 And Miphiboseth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and he had neither washed his feet, nor trimmed his beard: nor washed his garments from the day that the king went out, until the day of his return in peace.

1 Kings 21:27 And when Achab had heard these words, he rent his garments, and put haircloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and slept in sackcloth, and walked with his head cast down.

Job 21:12 They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

Psalm 137:2 On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.

Ecclesiastes 2:8 I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine:

Isaiah 24:8,9 The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent. . . .

Amos 6:4-6 You that sleep upon beds of ivory, and are wanton on your couches: that eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the herd; . . .

Jonah 3:3-9 Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee. . . .

Revelation 18:22 And the voice of harpers and of musicians and of them that play on the pipe and on the trumpet shall no more be heard at all in thee: and no craftsman of any art whatsoever shall be found any more at all in thee: and the sound of the mill shall be heard no more at all in thee:

instruments.

Daniel 2:1 In the second year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuchodonosor had a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream went out of his mind.

Esther 6:1 That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when they were reading them before him,

Psalm 77:4 My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not.

Context
Daniel in the Lions' Den
17And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den: which the king sealed with his own ring, and with the ring of his nobles, that nothing should be done against Daniel. 18And the king went away to his house, and laid himself down without taking supper, and meat was not set before him, and even sleep departed from him.19Then the king rising very early in the morning, went in haste to the lions' den:…
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:16
And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a fast, and going in by himself lay upon the ground.

2 Samuel 12:17
And the ancients of his house came, to make him rise from the ground: but he would not, neither did he eat meat with them.

Esther 6:1
That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when they were reading them before him,

Psalm 77:4
My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not.

Daniel 2:1
In the second year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuchodonosor had a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream went out of his mind.

Daniel 6:19
Then the king rising very early in the morning, went in haste to the lions' den:

Daniel 10:3
I ate no desirable bread, and neither flesh, nor wine, entered into my mouth, neither was I anointed with ointment: till the days of three weeks were accomplished.

Daniel 6:17
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