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Geneva Bible

Daniel 1:14

So hee consented to them in this matter, an proued them ten dayes.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abed-Nego;   Abstemiousness;   Appetite;   Daniel;   Government;   Integrity;   Melzar;   Mishael;   Prudence;   School;   Temperance;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Social Duties;   Stories for Children;   Temperance;   Temperance-Intemperance;   The Topic Concordance - Knowledge;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Self-Denial;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abednego;   Ashpenaz;   Melzar;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Azariah;   Daniel;   Delilah;   Meshach;   Mishael;   Nazarite;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Daniel, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Azariah ;   Eunuch;   Hananiah ;   Melzar ;   Mishael ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Abednego;   Daniel;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Dan'iel;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Drunkenness;   Judah, Kingdom of;   Only Begotten;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ten;   Vegetarianism;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 5;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He agreed with them about this and tested them for ten days.
Hebrew Names Version
So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
King James Version
So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
English Standard Version
So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.
New American Standard Bible
So he listened to them in this matter, and put them to the test for ten days.
New Century Version
So the guard agreed to test them for ten days.
Amplified Bible
So the man listened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So he listened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days.
Berean Standard Bible
So he consented to this and tested them for ten days.
Contemporary English Version
The guard agreed to do what Daniel had asked.
Complete Jewish Bible
He agreed to do what they had asked and gave them a ten-day test.
Darby Translation
And he hearkened unto them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
Easy-to-Read Version
So the guard agreed to test Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah for ten days.
George Lamsa Translation
So he consented to them in this matter and tested them for ten days.
Good News Translation
He agreed to let them try it for ten days.
Lexham English Bible
So he agreed to this proposal with them, and he tested them for ten days.
Literal Translation
And he listened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So he consented to them in this matter, ad proued the x. dayes.
American Standard Version
So he hearkened unto them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
Bible in Basic English
So he gave ear to them in this thing and put them to the test for ten days.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So he hearkened unto them in this matter, and tried them ten days.
King James Version (1611)
So hee consented to them in this matter, and proued them ten dayes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So he consented to them in this matter, and proued them ten dayes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he hearkened to them, and proved them ten days.
English Revised Version
So he hearkened unto them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
World English Bible
So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne he herde siche a word, he asaiede hem bi ten daies.
Update Bible Version
So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
Webster's Bible Translation
So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
New English Translation
So the warden agreed to their proposal and tested them for ten days.
New King James Version
So he consented with them in this matter, and tested them ten days.
New Living Translation
The attendant agreed to Daniel's suggestion and tested them for ten days.
New Life Bible
So he listened to them, and tested them for ten days.
New Revised Standard
So he agreed to this proposal and tested them for ten days.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then he hearkened unto them, according to this word, - and proved them ten-days;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had heard these words, he tried them for ten days.
Revised Standard Version
So he hearkened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.
Young's Literal Translation
And he hearkeneth to them, to this word, and trieth them ten days:
THE MESSAGE
The steward agreed to do it and fed them vegetables and water for ten days. At the end of the ten days they looked better and more robust than all the others who had been eating from the royal menu. So the steward continued to exempt them from the royal menu of food and drink and served them only vegetables.

Contextual Overview

8 But Daniel had determined in his heart, that hee woulde not defile him selfe with the portion of the Kings meate, nor with the wine which he dranke: therefore he required the chiefe of the Eunuches that he might not defile himselfe. 9 (Nowe God had brought Daniel into fauour, and tender loue with the chiefe of the Eunuches) 10 And the chiefe of the Eunuches sayd vnto Daniel, I feare my lord the King, who hath appointed your meate and your drinke: therefore if he see your faces worse liking then the other children, which are of your sort, then shall you make me lose mine head vnto the King. 11 Then sayd Daniel to Melzar, whome the chiefe of the Eunuches had set ouer Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 12 Proue thy seruants, I beseeche thee, ten dayes, and let them giue vs pulse to eate, and water to drinke. 13 Then let our countenances bee looked vpon before thee, and the countenances of the children that eate of the portion of the Kings meate: and as thou seest, deale with thy seruantes. 14 So hee consented to them in this matter, an proued them ten dayes. 15 And at the end of ten dayes, their countenances appeared fayrer, and in better liking then all the childrens, which did eate the portion of the Kings meate. 16 Thus Melzar tooke away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drinke, and gaue them pulse.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heauen and the earth.
Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without forme and voide, and darkenesse was vpon the deepe, and the Spirit of God moued vpon ye waters.
Genesis 1:3
Then God saide, Let there be light: And there was light.
Genesis 1:4
And God sawe the light that it was good, and God separated the light from the darkenes.
Genesis 1:6
Againe God saide, Let there be a firmament in the middes of the waters: and let it separate the waters from the waters.
Genesis 1:7
Then God made the firmament, and separated the waters, which were vnder the firmament, from the waters which were aboue the firmament. and it was so.
Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament Heauen. So the Euening and the morning were the seconde day.
Genesis 1:9
God saide againe, Let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appeare. and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought foorth the bud of the herbe, that seedeth seede according to his kind, also the tree that beareth fruite, which hath his seede in it selfe according to his kinde: and God sawe that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lightes in the firmament of the heauen, to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signes, and for seasons, and for dayes and yeeres.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So he consented to them in all this matter,.... Or, "hearkened to them" e; being convinced that it was a very reasonable request, and the matter was fairly put; and especially as he saw, if it succeeded to their wish, it would be to his profit; since the meat and drink of these four persons would be his perquisite, and fetch him money; pulse and water being to be obtained at an easy rate:

and proved them ten days; tried the experiment, by giving them pulse and water only during this time, in order to see how it would agree with them; and whether any visible alteration could be discerned in their countenances, so as to bring him or his master into suspicion and danger.

e וישמע להם "auscultans eis", Junius Tremellius, Broughtonus "auscultavit eis", Pisator, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So he consented to them in this matter - Hebrew, “he heard them in this thing.” The experiment was such, since it was to be for so short a time, that he ran little risk in the matter, as at the end of the ten days he supposed that it would be easy to change their mode of diet if the trial was unsuccessful.


 
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