I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be even to the end.
⛓ Read Daniel 6 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Darius's decree that all should fear 'the living God... who endures forever' supplies the 'living God' confession that gentiles are summoned to serve. The phrase 'living God' is the verbal anchor; Daniel's gentile-king acknowledgment coheres with Paul's report of gentile turning to the living and true God.
Medium confidenceDarius's decree that God 'is the living God, enduring forever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed' parallels Paul's praise of the King eternal and immortal. The Aramaic court tale supplies a Gentile confession of the everlasting, deathless God. A close conceptual model for the doxology.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"the living God" (Aram. elaha chayya) — Daniel's recurrent epithet (also 6:20), one source for John's "the seal of the living God." The title is widespread (cf. Josh 3:10; Ps 42:2; Hos 1:10), so volume is low and attribution to any single verse is uncertain.
Low confidence