Daniel 1:16

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So the warden removed the delicacies and the wine from their diet and gave them a diet of vegetables instead.

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  • Dan 1:12 : 12 “Please test your servants for ten days by providing us with some vegetables to eat and water to drink.

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  • Dan 1:2-15
    14 verses
    85%

    2Now the Lord delivered King Jehoiakim of Judah into his power, along with some of the vessels of the temple of God. He brought them to the land of Babylonia to the temple of his god and put the vessels in the treasury of his god.

    3The king commanded Ashpenaz, who was in charge of his court officials, to choose some of the Israelites who were of royal and noble descent–

    4young men in whom there was no physical defect and who were handsome, well versed in all kinds of wisdom, well educated and having keen insight, and who were capable of entering the king’s royal service– and to teach them the literature and language of the Babylonians.

    5So the king assigned them a daily ration from his royal delicacies and from the wine he himself drank. They were to be trained for the next three years. At the end of that time they were to enter the king’s service.

    6As it turned out, among these young men were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

    7But the overseer of the court officials renamed them. He gave Daniel the name Belteshazzar, Hananiah he named Shadrach, Mishael he named Meshach, and Azariah he named Abednego.

    8But 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.

    9Then God made the overseer of the court officials sympathetic to Daniel.

    10But 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!”

    11Daniel 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.

    13Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who are eating the royal delicacies; deal with us in light of what you see.”

    14So the warden agreed to their proposal and tested them for ten days.

    15At 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.

  • Dan 1:17-20
    4 verses
    75%

    17Now as for these four young men, God endowed them with knowledge and skill in all sorts of literature and wisdom– and Daniel had insight into all kinds of visions and dreams.

    18When the time appointed by the king arrived, the overseer of the court officials brought them into Nebuchadnezzar’s presence.

    19When the king spoke with them, he did not find among the entire group anyone like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, or Azariah. So they entered the king’s service.

    20In every matter of wisdom and insight the king asked them about, he found them to be ten times better than any of the magicians and astrologers that were in his entire empire.

  • Jer 52:33-34
    2 verses
    70%

    33Jehoiachin took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

    34He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.

  • Esth 1:7
    70%

    7Drinks were served in golden containers, all of which differed from one another. Royal wine was available in abundance at the king’s expense.

  • Ezek 4:9-11
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    69%

    9“As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side– 390 days– you will eat it.

    10The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.

    11And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times.

  • Neh 5:18
    69%

    18Every day one ox, six select sheep, and some birds were prepared for me, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Despite all this I did not require the food allotted to the governor, for the work was demanding on this people.

  • Dan 10:2-3
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    68%

    2In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three whole weeks.

    3I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips, nor did I anoint myself with oil until the end of those three weeks.

  • Ezra 6:9
    67%

    9Whatever is needed– whether oxen or rams or lambs for burnt offerings for the God of heaven or wheat or salt or wine or oil, as required by the priests who are in Jerusalem– must be given to them daily without any neglect,

  • Dan 5:1-2
    2 verses
    66%

    1Belshazzar Sees Mysterious Handwriting on a Wall King Belshazzar prepared a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in front of them all.

    2While under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar issued an order to bring in the gold and silver vessels– the ones that Nebuchadnezzar his father had confiscated from the temple in Jerusalem– so that the king and his nobles, together with his wives and his concubines, could drink from them.

  • Gen 41:21
    66%

    21When they had eaten them, no one would have known that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up.

  • Neh 5:14
    66%

    14From the day that I was appointed governor in the land of Judah, that is, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes– twelve years in all– neither I nor my relatives ate the food allotted to the governor.

  • Dan 2:16
    65%

    16So Daniel went in and requested the king to grant him time, that he might disclose the interpretation to the king.

  • Dan 2:18
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    18He asked them to pray for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery so that he and his friends would not be destroyed along with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

  • 2 Kgs 25:29-30
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    65%

    29Jehoiachin took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

    30He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died.

  • Dan 6:1-2
    2 verses
    65%

    1Daniel is Thrown into a Lions’ Den It seemed like a good idea to Darius to appoint over the kingdom 120 satraps who would be in charge of the entire kingdom.

    2Over them would be three supervisors, one of whom was Daniel. These satraps were accountable to them, so that the king’s interests might not incur damage.

  • Esth 1:4-5
    2 verses
    65%

    4He displayed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor of his majestic greatness for a lengthy period of time– a hundred and eighty days, to be exact!

    5When those days were completed, the king then provided a seven-day banquet for all the people who were present in Susa the citadel, for those of highest standing to the most lowly. It was held in the court located in the garden of the royal palace.

  • Num 29:18
    65%

    18and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

  • Num 29:21
    65%

    21and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

  • Deut 32:14
    65%

    14butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

  • Dan 5:24
    65%

    24Therefore the palm of a hand was sent from him, and this writing was inscribed.

  • Dan 5:4
    65%

    4As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

  • Num 29:24
    65%

    24and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

  • Num 29:27
    65%

    27and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

  • 2 Sam 17:28
    64%

    28brought bedding, basins, and pottery utensils. They also brought food for David and all who were with him, including wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

  • Num 29:30
    64%

    30and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

  • Dan 5:13
    64%

    13So Daniel was brought in before the king. The king said to Daniel,“Are you that Daniel who is one of the captives of Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?