The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Daniel 1:4 (NIV)

young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand,
and qualified to serve in the king’s palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians.

 

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Daniel 1:5 (NIV)

The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king’s table. They were to be trained for three years,
and after that they were to enter the king’s service.

 

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Daniel 1:6 (ESV)

6 Among these were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah of the tribe of Judah.

 

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Daniel 1:7 (ESV)

And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach,
Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego.

 

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Daniel 1:8 (NRSV)

But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the royal rations of food and wine;
so he asked the palace master to allow him not to defile himself.

 

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Daniel 1:9 (NRSV)

Now God allowed Daniel to receive favour and compassion from the palace master.

 

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Daniel 1:10 (NASB)

The 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 make
me forfeit my head to the king.”

 

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Daniel 1:11 (NASB)

But Daniel said to the overseer whom the commander of the officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

 

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Daniel 1:12 (CSB)

“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

 

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Daniel 1:13 (CSB)

Then examine our appearance and the appearance of the young men who are eating the king’s food, and deal with your servants
based on what you see.”

 

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Daniel 1:14 (NKJV)

So he consented with them in this matter, and tested them ten days.

 

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Daniel 1:15 (NKJV)

And at the end of ten days their features appeared better and fatter in flesh than all the young men who ate the portion
of the king’s delicacies.

 

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Daniel 1:16 (New Catholic Bible)

Therefore, the guard continued to withdraw the food and the wine they were to drink, and he provided them with vegetables.

 

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Daniel 1:17 (New Catholic Bible)

To these four young men God gave knowledge and skill in every aspect of literature and learning. In addition, Daniel was given
the gift of interpreting visions and dreams of every kind.

 

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Daniel 1:18 (WEB)

At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.

 

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Daniel 1:19 (WEB)

The king talked with them; and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
Therefore stood they before the king.

 

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Daniel 1:20 (EHV)

In every matter concerning wisdom and understanding that the king sought from them, he found them ten times better
than all the magicians and spell casters in his entire kingdom.

 

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Daniel 1:21 (EHV)

So Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus.

 

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Daniel 2:1 (CSB)

In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled him, and sleep deserted him.

 

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Daniel 2:2 (CSB)

So the king gave orders to summon the magicians, mediums, sorcerers, and Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams.
When they came and stood before the king,