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Daniel 1:14

So the warden agreed to their proposal and tested them for ten days.

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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So hee consented to them in this matter, an proued them ten dayes.
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 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 made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the royal delicacies or the royal wine. He therefore asked the overseer of the court officials for permission not to defile himself. 9 Then God made the overseer of the court officials sympathetic to Daniel. 10 But he responded to Daniel, "I fear my master the king. He is the one who has decided your food and drink. What would happen if he saw that you looked malnourished in comparison to the other young men your age? If that happened, you would endanger my life with the king!" 11 Daniel then spoke to the warden whom the overseer of the court officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: 12 "Please test your servants for ten days by providing us with some vegetables to eat and water to drink. 13 Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who are eating the royal delicacies; deal with us in light of what you see." 14 So the warden agreed to their proposal and tested them for ten days. 15 At the end of the ten days their appearance was better and their bodies were healthier than all the young men who had been eating the royal delicacies. 16 So the warden removed the delicacies and the wine from their diet and gave them a diet of vegetables instead.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:2
Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.
Genesis 1:3
God said, "Let there be light." And there was light!
Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:6
God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water."
Genesis 1:7
So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.
Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse "sky." There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:9
God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear." It was so.
Genesis 1:12
The land produced vegetation—plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,

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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