Blemish. Deformed people were excluded the throne, or the king's presence. (Procopius 1.) --- Science; well educated, or apt to learn. They were first to be taught the Chaldee letters, which then differed from the Hebrew. (Calmet)
Verse Daniel 1:4. _CHILDREN_] ילדים _yeladim, youths, young men_; and so the word should be rendered throughout this book. _SKILLED IN ALL WISDOM_] Rather, persons capable of every kind of literary...
CHILDREN IN WHOM WAS NO BLEMISH - The word rendered “children” in this place (ילדים _y__e__lâdı̂ym_) is different from that which is rendered “children” in Job 1:3 - בנים _bânnı̂ym_). That word deno...
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. The king's comman...
DANIEL 1. DANIEL AT THE COURT OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR. This introductory chapter describes the circumstances which brought Daniel to Babylon, introduced him into the Court, and gained him favour with the ki...
CHILDREN. Youths. CUNNING. skilful. IN THE KING'S PALACE. The Inscriptions show that there was. palace school with elaborate arrangements for special education. See below on "Chaldeans", and notes o...
Nebuchadnezzar's purpose to have certain noble and promising youths educated for the king's service....
_children_ YOUTHS (R.V.). _blemish_ here of physical imperfection, as Leviticus 21:17-18, &c. _well favoured_ An archaistic English expression for _good-looking_: so Genesis 29:17; Genesi
THE MASTER—THE KING'S SEED— _The prince—the royal seed:_ the Hebrew word for princes פרתמים _partemim._ Aquila and the LXX, as cited in Montfaucon's Hexapla, render it επιλεκτων, _choice persons,_ and...
Part OneDaniel's FaithChapter 1 CHAPTER ONE I. DANIEL'S FAITHDaniel 1:1-21 I. PAGANIZATION ATTEMPTED TEXT: Daniel 1:1-7 1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadne...
Children in whom was no blemish, but well 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...
1:4 learning (a-42) Or 'writing;' so ver. 17....
CHILDREN] RV 'youths,' and so in Daniel 1:10; Daniel 1:13; Daniel 1:15; Daniel 1:17. BLEMISH] in a physical sense. CUNNING] intelligent. Scie
INTRODUCTORY. THE ABSTINENCE OF DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDS FROM UNCLEAN FOOD Daniel is introduced as one of a band of Jews taken captive to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar in the third year of Jehoiakim (Daniel...
THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ ABOUT THIS BOOK The events in the first chapter of this book happened about 605 years before Christ was born. God had told the *Jews that they...
CHILDREN. — If the Babylonian customs were similar to the Persian, it is probable that the course of education would commence at an early age. So elaborate a system of science as the Babylonian, wheth...
יְלָדִ֣ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֵֽין ־בָּהֶ֣ם כָּל־_מוּם֩_† וְ...
THE PRELUDE "His loyalty he kept, his faith, his love."-MILTON THE first chapter of the Book of Daniel serves as a beautiful introduction to the whole, and strikes the keynote of faithfulness to the...
MORAL COURAGE REWARDED Daniel 1:1-21 These young men of noble Jewish families were brought to Babylon to receive education for the civil service. Their names were altered to break, so far as possible...
During the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Daniel came into favor and power. The king seems to have been impressed by the people he had conquered. He desired that some of the choicest of their young men be in...
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 palac...
What the immediate design of this heathenish monarch was is not said; but it is blessed to watch how the Lord over-rules it for his glory and his people's happiness. Jesus is always ordering all thing...
In yesterday’s Lecture we saw how the prefect or master of the eunuchs was commanded to bring up some noble youths, the offspring of the king and the elders; and Daniel now describes their qualities,...
Chapter 1 sets before us the royalty of Judah, formerly established by God over His people in the person of David, falling under the power of Nebuchadnezzar; and the king, Jehovah's anointed, given up...
CHILDREN IN WHOM WAS NO BLEMISH,.... Not mere children, but young men of fifteen or twenty years of age; about which age Daniel is by Aben Ezra supposed to be when he was carried captive; and less tha...
Children in whom [was] no blemish, but well 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, a...
_And the king spake unto Ashpenaz, master of the eunuchs_ One of the chief officers of his palace; the officers that attended about the persons of the eastern kings being commonly eunuchs, (a custom s...
children, young men of the middle adolescent period, between the ages of sixteen and twenty, IN WHOM WAS NO BLEMISH, that is, no physical defect, so that they would be faultlessly handsome, BUT WELL F...
DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDS BROUGHT TO BABYLON...
If the princes are so curious in their choice, no marvel that God was cautious in his, LEVITICUS 21:17 22:20-25. The reason why they were so delicately trained up was, that they being in the flower of...
Daniel 1:4 men H3206 blemish H3971 (H8675) H3971 good-looking H2896 H4758 gifted H7919 (H8688) wisdom...
‘And the king spoke to Ashpenaz, the master of his palace servants (officers, nobles, eunuchs), that he should bring in certain of the children of Israel, even of the seed royal and of the nobles, you...
Daniel 1:1 I. We see here how national sins are ever followed by Divine retribution. II. We see here most admirably illustrated the duty of adhering in all circumstances to that course of conduct wh...
Daniel 1:1. _In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it._ Sin always brings its punishment. King Jehoiakim did evil...
CONTENTS: Personal history of Daniel. Reason for appearance of Daniel and his friends before Nebuchadnezzar. CHARACTERS: Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel, Hananiah, Judah, Mishael, Azariah, Ashpenaz, Cyrus, Je...
Daniel 1:1. _In the third year of Jehoiakim Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem._ Some think that Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiakim the third year, but that while on his way to Babylon he made submission, a...
_The Learning and Tongue of the Chaldeans._ FACILITY IN ACQUIRING LANGUAGES It is amazing what pains some saintly people have taken in order to win souls for Christ! When John Wesley was crossing the...
_Children in whom was no blemish._ PIETY AT COURT I. THE HISTORY OF DANIEL’S FIRST APPEARANCE. 1. It is evident that this lad had come in with the others when Nebuchadnezzar led home his captives f...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 1:1 Daniel and the Three Friends at the Babylonian Court. The Hebrew exiles live faithfully to the Lord while serving in the court of Nebuchadnezzar and his successors, from 605...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 1:3 SOME of THE ROYAL FAMILY and NOBILITY were also exiled. Their exile fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecy to King Hezekiah in...
_HOMILETICS_ SECT. II.—THE FOUR CAPTIVE YOUTHS (_Chap_. Daniel 1:3) Among the youths of noble or princely birth taken from Jerusalem to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar as trophies of his conquest [7], and...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 1:1-27 OCCASION OF DANIEL BEING IN BABYLON. DANIEL 1:1 IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM KING OF JUDAH. After the defeat and death of Josiah, the people of the land put...
There are men who spend their lifetimes seeking to prove that the Bible is not all that it purports to be. Their whole premise for their doctorates are trying to take some aspect of the Bible and show...
2 Samuel 14:25; Acts 7:20; Acts 7:22; Daniel 2:20; Daniel 2:21;...
DANIEL, THE SEER Daniel 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we enter the study of Daniel, the Seer, it is well to note the conditions under which Daniel was found in the city of Babylon. The captivity of Isra...
The learning and the tongue — The Chaldeans were skilled above any other nation, in natural philosophy. Their tongue differed from the Hebrew in dialect and in pronunciation, which they learned that t...