New American Standard Bible 2020

Daniel 1:6-20

6Now among them from the sons of Judah were 1Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. 7Then the commander of the officials assigned new names to them; and to Daniel he assigned the name 2Belteshazzar, to Hananiah 3Shadrach, to Mishael 4Meshach, and to Azariah 5Abed-nego.

8But Daniel 6made up his mind that he would not 7defile himself with the 8king’s choice food or with the 9wine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself. 9Now God granted Daniel 10favor and compassion in the sight of the commander of the officials. 10The commander of the officials said to Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has allotted your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking gaunt in comparison to the youths who are your own age? Then you would 11make me forfeit my head to the king.” 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 12given some vegetables to eat and water to drink. 13Then let our appearance be 13examined 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 14better, and 15they were fatter than all the youths who had been eating the king’s choice food. 16So the overseer continued to 16withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and kept 17giving them vegetables.

17And as for these four youths, 18God gave them knowledge and intelligence in every kind of 19literature and expertise; Daniel even understood all kinds of 20visions and dreams.

18Then at the end of the days which the king had 21specified 22for presenting them, the commander of the officials 23presented them before Nebuchadnezzar. 19And the king talked with them, and out of them all not one was found like 24Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; so they 25 26entered the king’s personal service. 20As for every matter of 27expertise 28and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them 29ten times 30better than all the 31soothsayer priests and conjurers who were in all his realm.

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Notes

1. Daniel 1:6 Ezek 14:14, 20; 28:3; Matt 24:15 ↩
2. Daniel 1:7 Dan 2:26; 4:8; 5:12 ↩
3. Daniel 1:7 Dan 2:49; 3:12 ↩
4. Daniel 1:7 Dan 2:49; 3:12 ↩
5. Daniel 1:7 Dan 2:49; 3:12 ↩
6. Daniel 1:8 Lit set upon his heart ↩
7. Daniel 1:8 Lev 11:47; Ezek 4:13, 14; Hos 9:3, 4 ↩
8. Daniel 1:8 Ps 141:4; Dan 1:5 ↩
9. Daniel 1:8 Deut 32:38; Dan 5:4 ↩
10. Daniel 1:9 Gen 39:21; 1 Kin 8:50; Job 5:15, 16; Ps 106:46; Prov 16:7 ↩
11. Daniel 1:10 Lit make my head guilty ↩
12. Daniel 1:12 Dan 1:16 ↩
13. Daniel 1:13 Lit seen ↩
14. Daniel 1:15 Ex 23:25; Prov 10:22 ↩
15. Daniel 1:15 Lit fat of flesh ↩
16. Daniel 1:16 Lit take away ↩
17. Daniel 1:16 Dan 1:12 ↩
18. Daniel 1:17 1 Kin 3:12, 28; Job 32:8; Dan 1:20; 2:21, 23; Acts 7:22 ↩
19. Daniel 1:17 Or writing ↩
20. Daniel 1:17 Dan 2:19; 7:1; 8:1 ↩
21. Daniel 1:18 Lit said ↩
22. Daniel 1:18 Lit to bring them in ↩
23. Daniel 1:18 Lit brought them in ↩
24. Daniel 1:19 Dan 1:6, 7 ↩
25. Daniel 1:19 Lit stood before the king ↩
26. Daniel 1:19 Gen 41:46; Dan 1:5 ↩
27. Daniel 1:20 1 Kin 4:30, 31; Dan 1:17 ↩
28. Daniel 1:20 Lit of ↩
29. Daniel 1:20 Gen 31:7; Num 14:22; Neh 4:12; Job 19:3 ↩
30. Daniel 1:20 Dan 2:27, 28, 46, 48 ↩
31. Daniel 1:20 Is 19:3; Dan 2:2; 4:18; 5:7 ↩

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