daniel-1:17-20-nasb

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 1:20

And in all matters of wisdom and understanding - Margin, “of.” The Hebrew is, “Everything of wisdom of understanding.” The Greek, “In all things of wisdom “and” knowledge.” The meaning is, in everything which required peculiar wisdom to understand and explain it. The points submitted were such as would appropriately come before the minds of the sages and magicians who were employed as counselors at court.He found them ten times better - Better counselors, better informed. Hebrew, “ten “hands”... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 1:17

Daniel 1:17. As for these four children The Hebrew is literally, As to these children, or young men, each of them four: to them God gave knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom That is, in all sorts of learning and knowledge. They became particularly skilful in those parts of the Chaldean learning which were really useful, and which might recommend them to the favour of the kings both of Babylon and Persia, and qualify them for places of trust under them; as Moses’s education in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 1:18-20

Daniel 1:18-20. Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in At the end of three years, see Daniel 1:5, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in According to the king’s command. And the king communed with them To try their proficiency. This shows the king’s ability and judgment, without which he could not have discerned their fitness for his service, and their excellence above others. He examined all candidates that applied, and preferred those that... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Daniel 1:1-21

1:1-6:28 STORIES ABOUT DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDSTraining for Nebuchadnezzar’s court (1:1-21)Babylon’s first attack on Jerusalem came in 605 BC, during the reign of the Judean king Jehoiakim. In keeping with the usual practice among conquerors in ancient times, the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar plundered the temple of the conquered people, carried off its sacred objects and placed them in his own temple. In this way Nebuchadnezzar demonstrated his belief that Babylon’s gods were superior to the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

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

understanding = discernment. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Daniel 1:20

magicians and astrologers . See notes on Daniel 2:2 . Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read this "and" in the text. read more

James Burton Coffman

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

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 1:20

Daniel 1:20. Magicians and astrologers— These names may perhaps be taken in a good sense, as the wise men in St. Matthew; and the astrologers perhaps were then in general the same as astronomers with us. However, it cannot be collected from these words, that Daniel applied himself to the study of magic arts; but to the sciences of the Chaldees; in the same manner as Moses, long before, had applied himself to the study of the wisdom of Egypt. See Houbigant. The word אשׁפים ashaphim, rendered... 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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 1:20

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 1:17

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 1:18-20

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Daniel 1:1-21

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

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Daniel 1:20

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Daniel 1:17

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

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 1:20

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

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