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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ (with Art.). the [Triune] God. App-4.
TENDER LOVE. compassion....
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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...
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The loyalty to their faith shewn by the four Jewish youths....
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AND _God_ MADE _Daniel_ TO FIND KINDNESS _and_ COMPASSION IN THE
SIGHT _of_, &c. lit. - _gave_Daniel _to_kindness and compassion
_before_": exactly the same idiom which occurs (without -kindness
and...
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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...
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II. PERSEVERANCE ACTUATED
TEXT: Daniel 1:8-16
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD
DANIEL
_ROBERT BRYCE_
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The events in the first chapter of this book happened about 605 years
before Christ was born. God had told the *Jews that they...
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INTO FAVOUR. — The close correspondence between Daniel and Joseph
has been frequently remarked. Each finds favour with his master, and
afterwards with a foreign monarch. The grace of God enables each...
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THE PRELUDE
"His loyalty he kept, his faith, his love."-MILTON
THE first chapter of the Book of Daniel serves as a beautiful
introduction to the whole, and strikes the keynote of faithfulness to
the...
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MORAL COURAGE REWARDED
Daniel 1:1-21
These young men of noble Jewish families were brought to Babylon to
receive education for the civil service. Their names were altered to
break, so far as possible...
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During the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Daniel came into favor and power.
The king seems to have been impressed by the people he had conquered.
He desired that some of the choicest of their young men be in...
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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...
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Daniel, yesterday, related what he had asked from the master to whose
care he had been committed, he now inserts his sentence, to show this
demand to be quite unobjectionable, since the prefect of the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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DANIEL FAITHFUL TO HIS RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS...
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This is a special act of God's favour to his afflicted people, to give
them any favour in the eyes of them that do afflict them; PSALMS
106:46, HE MADE THEM TO BE PITIED OF THOSE THAT CARRIED THEM CAP...
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Daniel 1:9 God H430 brought H5414 (H8799) Daniel H1840 favor H2617
goodwill H7356 of H6440 chief H8269 eunuchs...
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‘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 Da...
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Daniel 1:1
I. We see here how national sins are ever followed by Divine
retribution.
II. We see here most admirably illustrated the duty of adhering in all
circumstances to that course of conduct wh...
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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...
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CONTENTS: Personal history of Daniel. Reason for appearance of Daniel
and his friends before Nebuchadnezzar.
CHARACTERS: Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel, Hananiah, Judah, Mishael, Azariah,
Ashpenaz, Cyrus, Je...
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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...
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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...
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DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 1:8 Daniel and his three friends kept their
original names and RESOLVED not to DEFILE themselves with THE KING’S
FOOD and drink (v....
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_HOMILETICS_
SECT. III.—THE RESOLUTION (_Chap_. Daniel 1:8)
The religion of Daniel and his three companions was soon to be put to
the test. They were to be fed from the royal table [16]; but the Jews...
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EXPOSITION
DANIEL 1:1-27
OCCASION OF DANIEL BEING IN BABYLON.
DANIEL 1:1
IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM KING OF JUDAH. After the
defeat and death of Josiah, the people of the land put...
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There are men who spend their lifetimes seeking to prove that the
Bible is not all that it purports to be. Their whole premise for their
doctorates are trying to take some aspect of the Bible and show...
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1 Kings 8:50; Acts 7:10; Ezra 7:27; Ezra 7:28; Genesis 32:28;...
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DANIEL, THE SEER
Daniel 1:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
As we enter the study of Daniel, the Seer, it is well to note the
conditions under which Daniel was found in the city of Babylon. The
captivity of Isra...