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New King James Version

Daniel 1:14

So he consented with them in this matter, and tested them ten days.

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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 English Translation
So the warden agreed to their proposal and tested them for 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 purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. 9 Now God had brought Daniel into the favor and goodwill of the chief of the eunuchs. 10 And the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, "I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking worse than the young men who are your age? Then you would endanger my head before the king." 11 So Daniel said to the steward Daniel 1:16">[fn] whom the chief of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 12 "Please test your servants for ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink. 13 Then let our appearance be examined before you, and the appearance of the young men who eat the portion of the king's delicacies; and as you see fit, so deal with your servants." 14 So he consented with them in this matter, and tested them ten days. 15 And at the end of ten days their features appeared better and fatter in flesh than all the young men who ate the portion of the king's delicacies. 16 Thus the steward took away their portion of delicacies and the wine that they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
Genesis 2:4-9; Job 38:4-11; John 1:1-5">[xr] In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:2
The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was [fn] on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:3
Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:6
Then God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
Genesis 1:7
Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.
Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for 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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