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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Daniel 1:1-2

These verses are introductory to the main subject of the Prophet's writings. He relates the circumstance of the captivity. We find a confirmation of the same, Isaiah 39:1; Jeremiah 52:1. I only detain the Reader at these verses to remark the awful event of the carrying away the sacred vessels of the temple, and putting them in the house of an idol. Alas! is it not so in every instance, when from the fall of man, what was designed for the Lord's glory is abused to the service of sin?

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET DANIEL _Chronological Notes relative to the commencement of_ _Daniel's prophesying_ -Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3397. -Year of the Jewish era of...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM KING OF JUDAH CAME NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON UNTO JERUSALEM - This event occurred, according to Jahn (“History of the Hebrew Commonwealth”), in the yea...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IN THE THIRD YEAR, &C. It was in the third year of Jehoiakim that Nebuchadnezzar set out from Babylon; and Daniel, writing there, speaks of the starting, not of the arrival at Jerusalem. See note on ...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _In the third year_&c. Whether this is historically correct is doubtful. Jehoiakim's reign lasted eleven years (b.c. 608 597); and the Book of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 25:1) equates his _fourth_year with th...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IN THE THIRD YEAR— It was in the eighth year of Jehoiakim that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against him, _and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon:_ 2 Chronicles 36:6. But promising fid...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    Part OneDaniel's FaithChapter 1 CHAPTER ONE I. DANIEL'S FAITHDaniel 1:1-21 I. PAGANIZATION ATTEMPTED TEXT: Daniel 1:1-7 1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadne...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM - cf. , "the fourth year:...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 (c-0) (The title of this book, 'Daniel'), Meaning, '*God ( _ El_ ) is judge.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE THIRD YEAR.. OF JEHOIAKIM] presents a historical difficulty at the outset. Nebuchadnezzar's supremacy over Palestine dated from the battle of Carchemish (605 b.c.). This battle took place in the f...

  • 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

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IN THE THIRD YEAR. — Two questions are involved in this verse. (1) Is it historically true that Jerusalem was taken by Nebuchadnezzar in the third year of Jehoiakim’s reign? (2) Does the language of t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בִּ שְׁנַ֣ת שָׁלֹ֔ושׁ לְ מַלְכ֖וּת יְהֹויָקִ֣ים...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    In the (a) third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. The Argument - The great providence of God, and his singular mercy to...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Third, at the conclusion, so that it is called the fourth. (Jeremias xxv. 1.) (Cornelius a Lapide; Menochius) --- Nabuchodonosor began his expedition into Syria a year before he was king; (Salien, A....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    These are not two different things, but the Prophet explains and confirms the same sentiments by a change of phrase, and says that the vessels which Nebuchadnezzar had brought into the land of Shinar...

  • 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

    IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM KING OF JUDAH,.... At the close of it, and at the beginning of the fourth, which was the first of Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah 25:1. Jerusalem seems to have bee...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. The Book of Daniel Written by himself (not by another of his name, in t...

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

    _In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim came Nebuchadnezzar_, &c. See notes on 2 Kings 24:1. _And the Lord gave Jehoiakim into his hand_ He took Jehoiakim prisoner, and put him in chains, with a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDS BROUGHT TO BABYLON...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Cf 2 Kings 24:1; 2 Chronicles 36:6, CAME NEBUCHADNEZZAR, KING OF BABYLON, UNTO JERUSALEM, AND BESIEGED IT. This account, which has been decl...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DANIEL CHAPTER 1 Jehoiakim's captivity, DANIEL 1:1,2. By the king of Babylon's order the master of the eunuchs taketh Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, to instruct them, and changeth their names...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Daniel 1:1 third H7969 year H8141 reign H4438 Jehoiakim H3079 king H4428 Judah H3063 Nebuchadnezzar H5019 king H4428 Baby

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 1 DANIEL IS ESTABLISHED AT THE COURT OF BABYLON. ‘In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, came Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to Jerusalem and besieged it.' Here the dat...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah._ THE CAPTIVITY Jehoiakim was the son of one of the best kings that ever sat upon the throne of David. His father, Josiah, was a fearer of t...

  • 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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _HOMILETICS_ SECT. I.—THE CAPTIVITY (_Daniel 1:1_) This remarkable book opens with the scene or Israel’s deepest degradation and misery. Threatened judgments had at length come. Warnings had been add...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 36:5; 2 Kings 24:1; 2 Kings 24:13; 2 Kings 24:2...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    A— Wasn’t the Book of Daniel actually written after about 170 b.c.? PROBLEM: Daniel contains an incredible amount of detail concerning the kingdoms of the Gentiles from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, fr...

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