CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Daniel 1 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/daniel/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/daniel/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Daniel 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/48.htm" title="Ezekiel 48">◄</a> Daniel 1 <a href="../daniel/2.htm" title="Daniel 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h2 class="ms">THE STORY OF DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDS (1.1—6.28)</h2><h3 class="s">The Young Men at Nebuchadnezzar's Court</h3><p class="par"><span class="v27_1_1"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.1" class="v27_1_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.1.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> In the third year that Jehoiakim was king of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia attacked Jerusalem and surrounded the city. </span><span class="v27_1_2"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.2" class="v27_1_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.1.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The Lord let him capture King Jehoiakim and seize some of the Temple treasures. He took some prisoners back with him to the temple of his gods in Babylon, and put the captured treasures in the temple storerooms.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v27_1_3"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.3" class="v27_1_3">3</span>The king ordered Ashpenaz, his chief official, to select from among the Israelite exiles some young men of the royal family and of the noble families. </span><span class="v27_1_4"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.4" class="v27_1_4">4</span>They had to be handsome, intelligent, well-trained, quick to learn, and free from physical defects, so that they would be qualified to serve in the royal court. Ashpenaz was to teach them to read and write the Babylonian language. </span><span class="v27_1_5"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.5" class="v27_1_5">5</span>The king also gave orders that every day they were to be given the same food and wine as the members of the royal court. After three years of this training they were to appear before the king. </span><span class="v27_1_6"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.6" class="v27_1_6">6</span>Among those chosen were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, all of whom were from the tribe of Judah. </span><span class="v27_1_7"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.7" class="v27_1_7">7</span>The chief official gave them new names: Belteshazzar, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v27_1_8"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.8" class="v27_1_8">8</span>Daniel made up his mind not to let himself become ritually unclean by eating the food and drinking the wine of the royal court, so he asked Ashpenaz to help him, </span><span class="v27_1_9"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.9" class="v27_1_9">9</span>and God made Ashpenaz sympathetic to Daniel. </span><span class="v27_1_10"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.10" class="v27_1_10">10</span>Ashpenaz, however, was afraid of the king, so he said to Daniel, “The king has decided what you are to eat and drink, and if you don't look as fit as the other young men, he may kill me.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v27_1_11"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.11" class="v27_1_11">11</span>So Daniel went to the guard whom Ashpenaz had placed in charge of him and his three friends. </span><span class="v27_1_12"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.12" class="v27_1_12">12</span>“Test us for ten days,” he said. “Give us vegetables to eat and water to drink. </span><span class="v27_1_13"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.13" class="v27_1_13">13</span>Then compare us with the young men who are eating the food of the royal court, and base your decision on how we look.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v27_1_14"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.14" class="v27_1_14">14</span>He agreed to let them try it for ten days. </span><span class="v27_1_15"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.15" class="v27_1_15">15</span>When the time was up, they looked healthier and stronger than all those who had been eating the royal food. </span><span class="v27_1_16"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.16" class="v27_1_16">16</span>So from then on the guard let them continue to eat vegetables instead of what the king provided.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v27_1_17"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.17" class="v27_1_17">17</span>God gave the four young men knowledge and skill in literature and philosophy. In addition, he gave Daniel skill in interpreting visions and dreams.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v27_1_18"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.18" class="v27_1_18">18</span>At the end of the three years set by the king, Ashpenaz took all the young men to Nebuchadnezzar. </span><span class="v27_1_19"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.19" class="v27_1_19">19</span>The king talked with them all, and Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah impressed him more than any of the others. So they became members of the king's court. </span><span class="v27_1_20"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.20" class="v27_1_20">20</span>No matter what question the king asked or what problem he raised, these four knew ten times more than any fortuneteller or magician in his whole kingdom. </span><span class="v27_1_21"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.1.21" class="v27_1_21">21</span>Daniel remained at the royal court until Cyrus, the emperor of Persia, conquered Babylonia.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.gnt.bible">www.gnt.bible</a> . Discover .BIBLE resources for your ministry at <a href="http://www.get.bible/gnt">www.get.bible/gnt</a></span></p><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /><br /><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ezekiel/48.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezekiel 48"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 48" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../daniel/2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Daniel 2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Daniel 2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/daniel/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>