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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/48.htm" title="Ezekiel 48">&#9668;</a> Daniel 1 <a href="../daniel/2.htm" title="Daniel 2">&#9658;</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/daniel/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses">&nbsp;Par&nbsp;&#9662;&nbsp;</a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">The Choice Young Men</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the third year of the reign of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>Jehoiakim king of Judah, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles of the house of God; and he brought them into the land of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>Shinar, to the house of his god, and brought the articles into the treasury of his god. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the [Babylonian] king told Ashpenaz, the chief of his <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>officials, to bring in some of the sons of Israel, including some from the royal family and from the nobles, <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>young men without blemish and handsome in appearance, skillful in all wisdom, endowed with intelligence <i>and</i> discernment, and quick to understand, competent to stand [in the presence of the king] <i>and</i> able to serve in the king&#8217;s palace. He also <i>ordered Ashpenaz</i> to teach them the literature and language of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[e]</a></span>Chaldeans. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The king assigned a daily ration for them from his finest food and from the wine which he drank. They were to be educated <i>and</i> nourished this way for three years so that at the end of that time they were [prepared] to enter the king&#8217;s service. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Among them from the sons of Judah were: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The commander of the officials gave them [Babylonian] names: Daniel he named Belteshazzar, Hananiah <i>he named</i> Shadrach, Mishael <i>he named</i> Meshach, and Azariah <i>he named</i> Abed-nego. <p class="hdg">Daniel&#8217;s Resolve</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile (taint, dishonor) himself with the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[f]</a></span>king&#8217;s finest food or with the wine which the king drank; so he asked the commander of the officials that he might [be excused so that he would] not defile himself. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now God granted Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the commander of the officials, <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and the commander of the officials said to Daniel, &#8220;I am afraid of my lord the king, who has prearranged your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking more haggard than the young men who are your own age? Then you would make me forfeit my head to the king.&#8221; <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But Daniel said to the overseer whom the commander of the officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>&#8220;Please, test your servants for ten days, and let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to drink. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then let our appearance and the appearance of the young men who eat the king&#8217;s finest food be observed <i>and</i> compared by you, and deal with your servants in accordance with what you see.&#8221; <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So the man listened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>At the end of ten days it seemed that they were looking better and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[g]</a></span>healthier than all the young men who ate the king&#8217;s finest food. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So the overseer continued to withhold their fine food and the wine they were to drink, and kept giving them vegetables. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>As for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and skill in all <i>kinds of</i> literature and wisdom; Daniel also understood all <i>kinds of</i> visions and dreams. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>At the end of the time set by the king to bring all the young men in [before him], the commander of the officials presented them to Nebuchadnezzar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The king spoke with them, and among them all not one was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; so they were [selected and] assigned to stand before the king <i>and</i> enter his personal service. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the [learned] magicians and enchanters (Magi) in his whole realm. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Daniel remained there until the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[h]</a></span>first year of [the reign of] King Cyrus [over Babylon; now this was at the end of the seventy-year exile of Judah (the Southern Kingdom) in Babylonia, as foretold by Jeremiah].<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Pharaoh Neco had killed Josiah king of Judah and installed Eliakim (Josiah&#8217;s son) as a vassal ruler. Neco changed Eliakim&#8217;s name to Jehoiakim and he ruled for eleven years (2 Chr 36:4, 5).<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Nebuchadnezzar II of the Chaldean Dynasty, more commonly known as Nebuchadnezzar the Great, ruled Babylon from 605-562 B.C. He conquered Jerusalem in 597 B.C.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> I.e. southern Babylonia.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>eunuchs,</i> and so throughout.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[e]</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> The Chaldeans dominated and ruled Babylonia from 625 B.C. until their empire fell in 539 B.C., but they were known as early as 1000 B.C. as an aggressive, tribal people in the southern region of Babylonia. They were highly skilled in both the science of astronomy and the pseudo-science of astrology. They kept meticulous records of celestial motion and correctly calculated the length of a year to within just a few minutes. Babylon, their capital city, was the center of trade and learning in the western part of Asia. The classical literature of the Chaldeans was written in cuneiform, but the common language, both written and spoken in Babylon, was Akkadian increasingly influenced by Aramaic.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[f]</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> The first portions of the food and wine would have been presented to idols before being served at the table.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[g]</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Lit <i>fat of flesh</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[h]</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire, ruled from 559-529 B.C. He conquered the Median (549 B.C.), the Lydian (546 B.C.), and the Neo-Babylonian (539 B.C.) kingdoms and formed the greatest empire the world had ever known. 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