Daniel 1:11-20

11But Daniel said to the overseer whom the commander of the officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 12“Please put your servants to the test for ten days, and let us be 1given some vegetables to eat and water to drink. 13Then let our appearance be 2examined in your presence and the appearance of the youths who are eating the king’s choice food; and deal with your servants according to what you see.”

14So he listened to them in this matter, and put them to the test for ten days. 15And at the end of ten days their appearance seemed 3better, and 4they were fatter than all the youths who had been eating the king’s choice food. 16So the overseer continued to 5withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and kept 6giving them vegetables.

17And as for these four youths, 7God gave them knowledge and intelligence in every kind of 8literature and expertise; Daniel even understood all kinds of 9visions and dreams.

18Then at the end of the days which the king had 10specified 11for presenting them, the commander of the officials 12presented them before Nebuchadnezzar. 19And the king talked with them, and out of them all not one was found like 13Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; so they 1415entered the king’s personal service. 20As for every matter of 16expertise 17and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them 18ten times 19better than all the 20soothsayer priests and conjurers who were in all his realm.