George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Daniel 1:5
Meat: more exquisite. (De Dieu.) --- All was first served on the king's table. (Atheneus vi. 14.)
Meat: more exquisite. (De Dieu.) --- All was first served on the king's table. (Atheneus vi. 14.)
Verse Daniel 1:5. _A DAILY PROVISION_] _Athenaeus_, lib. iv., c. 10, says: The kings of Persia, (who succeeded the kings of Babylon, on whose empire they had seized,) were accustomed to order the food...
AND THE KING APPOINTED THEM - Calvin supposes that this arrangement was resorted to in order to render them effeminate, and, by a course of luxurious living, to induce them gradually to forget their o...
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...
MEAT. food. Hebrew. _pathbag._. Persian or Aryan word. Occurs only in Daniel. WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27. THREE YEARS. Say 497, 496, and 495 B.C. See note on Daniel 2:1. It does not say these yea...
Nebuchadnezzar's purpose to have certain noble and promising youths educated for the king's service....
_a daily_ PORTION _of the king's_ DELICACIES] Superior food, such as was served at the table of the king himself, was to be provided for the selected youths. It was a compliment to send anyone a porti...
SO NOURISHING THEM THREE YEARS— _That after they had been educated for three years, at the end,_ &c. Houbigant; or, _And that they should be thus bred up three years, and at the end thereof they shoul...
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...
And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king. AND THE K...
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...
MEAT] RM 'dainties.' A Persian word occurring nowhere in OT. save in Daniel. STAND BEFORE THE KING] as court attendants....
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...
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 t...
וַ יְמַן֩ לָהֶ֨ם הַ מֶּ֜לֶךְ דְּבַר ־יֹ֣ום
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...
And the king appointed them a (h) daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them (i) three years, that at the end thereof they might stand (k) before the king....
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 this verse, Daniel shews that the king had ordered some youths to be brought to him from Judea, and to be so nourished as to be intoxicated with delicacies, and thus rendered forgetful of their own...
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...
AND THE KING APPOINTED THEM A DAILY PROVISION OF THE KING'S MEAT,.... Every day a portion was ordered them, from the king's table, of the richest dainties he himself ate of; which was done not only as...
And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king. Ver. 5. _An...
_The king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat_ Such as he had at his own table; wherein his humanity and bounty appeared toward them the more conspicuous, they being captives. _So nour...
And the king appointed them, namely, for those who were to be selected, A DAILY PROVISION OF THE KING'S MEAT, of the food which was served on his own tables, AND OF THE WINE WHICH HE DRANK, literally,...
DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDS BROUGHT TO BABYLON...
THE WINE WHICH HE DRANK: _ Heb._ the wine of his drink...
OF THE KING'S MEAT; such as he had at his own table, wherein his bounty and humanity appeared towards them the more conspicuous, they being captives. By this preparation they were judged fit to stand...
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‘And the king appointed for them a daily portion of the king's food, and of the wine that he drank, and that they should be nourished for three years, that at the end of that period they might stand b...
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...
_A daily provision of the King’s meat._ THE UNNAMED CAPTIVE ROYAL CHILDREN 1. That we should abstain from the least appearance of evil. Daniel and his three companions, alone of the royal children, r...
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 1:5 Nebuchadnezzar forced the exiles into adopting Babylonian culture by depriving them of their religious and cultural identity and creating dependence on the royal court. They...
_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...
1 Kings 10:8; 1 Kings 4:22; 1 Kings 4:23; 1 Samuel 16:22; 2 Chron
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 king's meat — Such as he had at his own table....