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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 1:9

‘Now God made Daniel to be viewed with favour and compassion in the sight of the prince over the palace servants.'

God was to be seen as present and active in what was happening. It was He Who won Daniel favour with this great prince.

Notice the use of ‘God' with the article, and not Yahweh (compare also ‘Lord' in Daniel 1:2 and see Daniel 2:47), because Daniel was in a foreign country, a typical Pentateuchal usage. Here He was ‘the God of Heaven', supreme over all. It was not covenant country.

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See also Daniel 1:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NOW GOD HAD BROUGHT DANIEL INTO FAVOR - Compare Genesis 39:21; Proverbs 16:7. By what means this had been done is not mentioned. It may be presumed, however, that it was by the attractiveness of his p...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. DANIEL IN BABYLON, NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM, AND HISTORICAL EVENTS CHAPTER 1 Daniel and His Companions in Babylon _ 1. The introduction (Daniel 1:1)_ 2. The king's comman...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DANIEL 1. DANIEL AT THE COURT OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR. This introductory chapter describes the circumstances which brought Daniel to Babylon, introduced him into the Court, and gained him favour with the ki...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    NOW GOD HAD BROUGHT DANIEL INTO FAVOR. The chief of the eunuchs had formed. tender attachment for the young Daniel, which is ascribed to the divine influence. God was thus working to protect and nurtu...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ (with Art.). the [Triune] God. App-4. TENDER LOVE. compassion....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Daniel and his companions crave to be allowed not to use the provision supplied from the royal table. The meat might be that of animals not slaughtered in the proper manner (Deuteronomy 12:23-24), or...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The loyalty to their faith shewn by the four Jewish youths....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    TENDER LOVE— רחמים _rachamim,_ Bowels of compassion. It has a like sense also at ch. Daniel 2:18. The word is of very strong import, and denotes a kind of parental compassion. St. Paul has an expressi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    II. PERSEVERANCE ACTUATED TEXT: Daniel 1:8-16 8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's dainties, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs. GOD HAD BROUGHT DANIEL INTO FAVOUR. The favour of others toward the godly is the doing of God. So in Joseph's...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    INTRODUCTORY. THE ABSTINENCE OF DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDS FROM UNCLEAN FOOD Daniel is introduced as one of a band of Jews taken captive to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar in the third year of Jehoiakim (Daniel...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּתֵּ֤ן הָֽ אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת ־דָּ֣נִיֵּ֔אל ל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Mark the grace and watchful eye of the Lord in this instance over his people, or we shall lose the chief beauty of the history. Surely, nothing but grace could have prompted young men, like Daniel and...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 1 sets before us the royalty of Judah, formerly established by God over His people in the person of David, falling under the power of Nebuchadnezzar; and the king, Jehovah's anointed, given up...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NOW GOD HAD BROUGHT DANIEL INTO FAVOUR AND TENDER LOVE WITH THE PRINCE OF THE EUNUCHS. Even before this request was made; as he gave to Joseph favour in the sight of Potiphar, and of the keeper of the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs. Ver. 9. _Now God had brought Daniel into favour._] God is never wanting to the truly conscientious. Let them cho...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love_, &c. Hebrew, לרחמים, _compassionate regard_, or, _bowels of compassion_, which is also the sense of the same word, Daniel 2:18. It is a very st...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Now, God, whose kind providence is brought out throughout the narrative, HAD BROUGHT DANIEL INTO FAVOR AND TENDER LOVE WITH THE PRINCE OF THE EUNUCHS, so that the latter was favorably disposed toward...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Daniel 1:9 God H430 brought H5414 (H8799) Daniel H1840 favor H2617 goodwill H7356 of H6440 chief H8269 eunuchs...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Daniel 1:1. _In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it._ Sin always brings its punishment. King Jehoiakim did evil...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Daniel 1:1. _In the third year of Jehoiakim Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem._ Some think that Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiakim the third year, but that while on his way to Babylon he made submission, a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 1:1 Daniel and the Three Friends at the Babylonian Court. The Hebrew exiles live faithfully to the Lord while serving in the court of Nebuchadnezzar and his successors, from 605...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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