Daniel 1:1-8

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Daniel 1:5

(5) A daily portion.—(Comp. Jeremiah 52:34.) The meat was solid food, as opposed to the wine and vegetables which formed so important a part of Babylonian diet. The food appears to have been sent from the king’s table.Three years.—The king appears to have had sufficient insight into the extraordinary character of these youths, to enable him to prescribe not only the subjects of their studies, but also the length of their course of instruction. It appears that Nebuchadnezzar was a man of far... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Daniel 1:6

(6) Now among these . . .—Four persons only are mentioned here, because the narrative of the book is only concerned with four. Daniel calls our attention to the fact that the very four whom Providence had endowed with the greatest natural gifts were those by whose constancy and example the king was converted. The names of these four were subsequently changed, with the view of showing that they had become nationalised Chaldee subjects. (Comp. 2 Kings 23:34; 2 Kings 24:17.) The name Belteshazzar... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Daniel 1:8

(8) Daniel purposed in his heart.—He was cautious from the first. He feared that he might eat something that had been consecrated to idols. (See 1 Corinthians 8:0) 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

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Daniel 1:1-21

Analysis and Annotations I. DANIEL IN BABYLON, NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM, AND HISTORICAL EVENTS CHAPTER 1 Daniel and His Companions in Babylon 1. The introduction (Daniel 1:1-2 ) 2. The king’s command (Daniel 1:3-5 ) 3. Daniel and his companions (Daniel 1:6-21 ) Daniel 1:1-2 . Divine judgment, which had threatened so long, had finally fallen upon Jerusalem. It was executed by the divinely chosen instrument, Nebuchadnezzar. Three times he came against Jerusalem. In 606 B.C. he appeared the... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Daniel 1:1

1:1 In the {a} third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.(a) Read 2 Kings 24:1, Jeremiah 25:1 . read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Daniel 1:2

1:2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of {b} Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.(b) Which was a plain by Babylon, where the temple of their great god was, and is here taken for Babylon. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Daniel 1:3

1:3 And the king spake unto {c} Ashpenaz the master of his {d} eunuchs, that he should bring [certain] of the children of Israel, and of the {e} king’s seed, and of the princes;(c) Who was as master of the guards.(d) He calls them "eunuchs" whom the King nourished and brought up to be rulers of other countries afterwards.(e) His purpose was to keep them as hostages, and so that he might show himself victorious, and also by their good entreaty and learning of his religion, they might favour him... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Daniel 1:4

1:4 Children in whom [was] no blemish, but well {f} favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as [had] ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the {g} learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.(f) The King required three things: that they should be of noble birth, that they should be intelligent and learned, and that they should be of a strong and handsome nature, so that they might do him better service.... read more

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