Daniel 6:10

When Daniel realized ¹  that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows ²  in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. ³  Three ⁴  times daily he was ⁵  kneeling ⁶  and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.

1Ki 8:30,38,44,48-50; 1Ki 8:54; 2Ch 6:13; 2Ch 6:38; Ezr 9:5; Ne 6:11; Ps 5:7; Ps 11:1,2; Ps 34:1; Ps 55:17; Ps 86:3; Ps 95:6; Da 6:13; Jon 2:4; Mt 10:28-33; Lu 12:4-9; Lu 14:26; Lu 22:41; Ac 2:1,2,15; Ac 3:1; Ac 4:17-19; Ac 4:18,19,29; Ac 5:20,29,40-42; Ac 7:60; Ac 9:40; Ac 10:9; Ac 20:24; Ac 20:36; Ac 21:5; Eph 3:14; Php 1:14,20; Php 4:6; Col 3:17; 1Th 5:17,18; Heb 4:16; Heb 13:15; Re 2:10,13

¹ tn Aram “knew.”

² sn In later rabbinic thought this verse was sometimes cited as a proof text for the notion that one should pray only in a house with windows. See b. Berakhot 34b.

³ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

⁴ sn This is apparently the only specific mention in the OT of prayer being regularly offered three times a day. The practice was probably not unique to Daniel, however.

⁵ tc Read with several medieval Hebrew MSS and printed editions הֲוָה (havah) rather than the MT הוּא (hu’).

⁶ tn Aram “kneeling on his knees” (so NASB).

sn No specific posture for offering prayers is prescribed in the OT. Kneeling, as here, and standing were both practiced.