Daniel 1:19-20 NVIPT

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 1:20

And in all matters of wisdom and understanding - Margin, “of.” The Hebrew is, “Everything of wisdom of understanding.” The Greek, “In all things of wisdom “and” knowledge.” The meaning is, in everything which required peculiar wisdom to understand and explain it. The points submitted were such as would appropriately come before the minds of the sages and magicians who were employed as counselors at court.He found them ten times better - Better counselors, better informed. Hebrew, “ten “hands”... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 1:18-20

Daniel 1:18-20. Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in At the end of three years, see Daniel 1:5, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in According to the king’s command. And the king communed with them To try their proficiency. This shows the king’s ability and judgment, without which he could not have discerned their fitness for his service, and their excellence above others. He examined all candidates that applied, and preferred those that... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Daniel 1:1-21

1:1-6:28 STORIES ABOUT DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDSTraining for Nebuchadnezzar’s court (1:1-21)Babylon’s first attack on Jerusalem came in 605 BC, during the reign of the Judean king Jehoiakim. In keeping with the usual practice among conquerors in ancient times, the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar plundered the temple of the conquered people, carried off its sacred objects and placed them in his own temple. In this way Nebuchadnezzar demonstrated his belief that Babylon’s gods were superior to the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Daniel 1:20

magicians and astrologers . See notes on Daniel 2:2 . Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read this "and" in the text. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 1:20

Daniel 1:20. Magicians and astrologers— These names may perhaps be taken in a good sense, as the wise men in St. Matthew; and the astrologers perhaps were then in general the same as astronomers with us. However, it cannot be collected from these words, that Daniel applied himself to the study of magic arts; but to the sciences of the Chaldees; in the same manner as Moses, long before, had applied himself to the study of the wisdom of Egypt. See Houbigant. The word אשׁפים ashaphim, rendered... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 1:19

19. stood . . . before the king—that is, were advanced to a position of favor near the throne. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 1:20

20. ten times—literally, "ten hands." magicians—properly, "sacred scribes, skilled in the sacred writings, a class of Egyptian priests" [GESENIUS]; from a Hebrew root, "a pen." The word in our English Version, "magicians," comes from mag, that is, "a priest." The Magi formed one of the six divisions of the Medes. astrologers—Hebrew, "enchanters," from a root, "to conceal," pactisers of the occult arts. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 1:17-21

E. God’s blessing of Daniel and his friends 1:17-21 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 1:18-20

At the end of their three-year curriculum, the four faithful friends received a final examination that included an oral testing by the king himself (cf. Proverbs 22:29). They passed at the head of their class (cf. 1 Samuel 2:30). They were probably close to 20 years old at this time. [Note: See Walvoord, p. 41.] Nebuchadnezzar proceeded to give them positions of significant government responsibility, which their education had equipped them for. In these positions they proved far superior to any... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 1:1-21

Introductory. The abstinence of Daniel and his Friends from Unclean FoodDaniel is introduced as one of a band of Jews taken captive to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar in the third year of Jehoiakim (Daniel 1:1-2). Along with three of his youthful countrymen he is chosen to be trained during three years for personal attendance on the king (Daniel 1:3-7). As the food and drink provided for those in this position are ceremonially unclean Daniel resolves not to partake of them. After an unsuccessful... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 1:20

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 1:18-20

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Daniel 1:1-21

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Daniel 1:20

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 1:20

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 1:19

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 1:20

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 1:17-21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 1:18-20

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 1:1-21

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