Daniel 1:17

We must own knowledge, and skill, and wisdom to come from God, James 1:5. These are beams of light shining in us from the Father of lights, and a man can receive nothing of this unless it be given him from above, 1 Thessalonians 3:27. Object. But was not this magic, and was not this learning forbidden as abomination to the Lord, Deuteronomy 18:9 ? Answ. The Chaldeans used lawful arts and sciences, and unlawful; these four young men, Daniel and his companions, used only those that were lawful; rejecting all that wisdom which is sensual, carnal, and devilish, James 3:15. In all visions and dreams; not in idle, vain, and lying, but in such as were sent of God, and predictions of things to come, as Numbers 12:6, such as the prophets had. Such was that of Nebuchadnezzar.