Daniel 1:17

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Daniel 1:17

understanding = discernment. read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Daniel 1:17

"Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. And 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. And the king communed with them and among them all there was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; therefore stood they before the king. And in every matter of wisdom and understanding,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 1:17

Daniel 1:17. Dreams— Namely, those sent from God to portend future events; which were easily distinguished from fortuitous dreams; if, for instance, they had nothing in them preposterous, nothing irregular, nothing monstrous; and if the whole order and consequences of things were regularly preserved in them, from beginning to end: for nothing of this kind happens in fortuitous dreams; which generally exhibit irregular, unconnected appearances, and which greatly depend upon the disposition of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 1:17

17. God gave them knowledge— (Exodus 31:2; Exodus 31:3; 1 Kings 3:12; Job 32:8; James 1:5; James 1:17). Daniel had understanding in . . . dreams—God thus made one of the despised covenant-people eclipse the Chaldean sages in the very science on which they most prided themselves. So Joseph in the court of Pharaoh (Genesis 40:5; Genesis 41:1-8). Daniel, in these praises of his own "understanding," speaks not through vanity, but by the direction of God, as one transported out of himself. See my... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 1:17

In addition to favor with their overseers, God gave Daniel and his three friends the ability to master the subjects they studied and wisdom in these matters (cf. James 1:5). They may have thought that Nebuchadnezzar had designed their curriculum, but really God had. Like Moses and Paul, Daniel had an excellent educational background and an unusually brilliant mind (cf. Acts 7:22; Philippians 3:4). God also gave Daniel the supernatural ability to understand visions and dreams (Daniel 1:17).... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 1:17-21

E. God’s blessing of Daniel and his friends 1:17-21 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 1:1-21

Introductory. The abstinence of Daniel and his Friends from Unclean FoodDaniel is introduced as one of a band of Jews taken captive to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar in the third year of Jehoiakim (Daniel 1:1-2). Along with three of his youthful countrymen he is chosen to be trained during three years for personal attendance on the king (Daniel 1:3-7). As the food and drink provided for those in this position are ceremonially unclean Daniel resolves not to partake of them. After an unsuccessful... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Daniel 1:17

(17) Learning and wisdom.—These appear to be contrasted in this verse. The former refers to literature, and implies the knowledge of secular subjects; the latter implies philosophy and theology, and perhaps, also, an acquaintance with the meaning of portents. Abundant instances of the latter may be found in the Records of the Past (see vol. v., p. 167). read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Daniel 1:1-21

Daniel 1:2 ; Daniel 1:6 I was taken captive when nearly sixteen years of age. I did not know the true God; and I was taken to Ireland in captivity with so many thousand men, in accordance with our deserts, because we departed from God and kept not His precepts. St. Patrick's Confessions. Daniel 1:8 The strangeness of foreign life threw me back into myself. Newman, Apologia, I. Daniel's Self-denial Daniel 1:8 We are told about a great many good men in the pages of the Bible: some who were... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Daniel 1:1-21

THE PRELUDE"His loyalty he kept, his faith, his love."-MILTONTHE first chapter of the Book of Daniel serves as a beautiful introduction to the whole, and strikes the keynote of faithfulness to the institutions of Judaism which of all others seemed most important to the mind of a pious Hebrew in the days of Antiochus Epiphanes. At a time when many were wavering, and many had lapsed into open apostasy, the writer wished to set before his countrymen in the most winning and vivid manner the... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Daniel 1:17

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Daniel 1:17

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 1:17

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 1:17

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 1:17

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 1:17-21

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 1:1-21

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Daniel 1:17

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Daniel 1:1-21

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Daniel 1:1-21

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