Daniel 10:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.

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  • Dan 6:18 : 18 Then they got a stone and put it over the mouth of the hole, and it was stamped with the king's stamp and with the stamp of the lords, so that the decision about Daniel might not be changed.
  • Matt 6:17 : 17 But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;
  • 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.
  • 2 Sam 19:24 : 24 And Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son, came down for the purpose of meeting the king; his feet had not been cared for or his hair cut or his clothing washed from the day when the king went away till the day when he came back in peace.
  • Job 33:20 : 20 He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;
  • Isa 24:6-9 : 6 For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number. 7 The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief. 8 The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad. 9 There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it. 10 The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.
  • Dan 11:8 : 8 And their gods and their metal images and their fair vessels of silver and gold he will take away into the south; and for some years he will keep away from the king of the north.
  • Amos 5:11 : 11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.
  • Nah 2:9 : 9 But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Dan 10:1-2
    2 verses
    87%

    1 In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a secret was unfolded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a hard work: and he had knowledge of it, and the vision was clear to him.

    2 In those days I, Daniel, gave myself up to grief for three full weeks.

  • Dan 10:4
    75%

    4 And on the twenty-fourth day of the first month I was by the side of the great river;

  • Dan 1:8
    73%

    8 And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean.

  • Dan 9:3
    72%

    3 And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.

  • Dan 1:5
    71%

    5 And a regular amount of food and wine every day from the king's table was ordered for them by the king; and they were to be cared for for three years so that at the end of that time they might take their places before the king.

  • Deut 9:9
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    9 When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded the agreement which the Lord made with you, I was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights without taking food or drinking water.

  • Deut 9:18
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    18 And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.

  • Dan 1:10-16
    7 verses
    71%

    10 And the captain of the unsexed servants said to Daniel, I am in fear of my lord the king, who has given orders about your food and your drink; what if he sees you looking less happy than the other young men of your generation? then you would have put my head in danger from the king.

    11 Then Daniel said to the keeper in whose care the captain of the unsexed servants had put Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

    12 Put your servants to the test for ten days; let them give us grain for our food and water for our drink.

    13 Then take a look at our faces and the faces of the young men who have food from the king's table; and, having seen them, do to your servants as it seems right to you.

    14 So he gave ear to them in this thing and put them to the test for ten days.

    15 And at the end of ten days their faces seemed fairer and they were fatter in flesh than all the young men who had their food from the king's table.

    16 So the keeper regularly took away their meat and the wine which was to have been their drink, and gave them grain.

  • Dan 8:27
    71%

    27 And I, Daniel, was ill for some days; then I got up and did the king's business: and I was full of wonder at the vision, but no one was able to give the sense of it.

  • 1 Sam 30:12
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    12 And they gave him part of a cake of figs and some dry grapes; and after the food, his spirit came back to him, for he had had no food or drink for three days and nights.

  • Neh 5:14
    70%

    14 Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.

  • Dan 7:15
    70%

    15 As for me, Daniel, my spirit was pained because of this, and the visions of my head were troubling me.

  • Ezek 4:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food.

    10 And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.

  • Ezek 4:14
    70%

    14 Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.

  • Num 11:19
    69%

    19 Not for one day only, or even for five or ten or twenty days;

  • Neh 5:18
    69%

    18 Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.

  • Dan 10:8
    69%

    8 So I was by myself, and I saw this great vision, and all my strength went from me; and the colour went from my face.

  • 2 Sam 3:35
    69%

    35 And the people came to make David take food, while it was still day, but David with an oath said, May God's punishment be on me if I take a taste of bread or any other thing till the sun has gone down!

  • Acts 9:9
    68%

    9 And for three days he was not able to see, and he took no food or drink.

  • Dan 10:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15 And after he had said these words to me, I kept my face turned to the earth and was unable to say anything.

    16 Then one whose form was like the sons of men put his finger on my lips; and opening my mouth, I said to him who was before me, O my lord, because of the vision my pains have come on me, and I have no more strength.

  • Luke 4:2
    68%

    2 For forty days, being tested by the Evil One. And he had no food in those days; and when they came to an end, he was in need of food.

  • Ezra 10:6
    68%

    6 Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib; but when he came there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.

  • Deut 29:6
    68%

    6 You have had no bread, or wine, or strong drink: so that you might see that I am the Lord your God.

  • Exod 34:28
    67%

    28 And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.

  • 1 Kgs 13:9
    67%

    9 For so I was ordered by the word of the Lord, who said, You are not to take food or a drink of water, and you are not to go back the way you came.

  • Ps 109:24
    67%

    24 My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.

  • Ezek 3:3
    67%

    3 And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.

  • 1 Kgs 13:16-17
    2 verses
    67%

    16 But he said, I may not go back with you or go into your house; and I will not take food or a drink of water with you in this place;

    17 For the Lord said to me, You are not to take food or water there, or go back again by the way you came.

  • Acts 27:33
    67%

    33 And when dawn was near, Paul gave them all orders to take food, saying, This is the fourteenth day you have been waiting and taking no food.

  • Neh 1:4
    67%

    4 Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,

  • Job 33:20
    67%

    20 He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

  • 1 Kgs 19:8
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    8 So he got up and took food and drink, and in the strength of that food he went on for forty days and nights, to Horeb, the mountain of God.

  • Deut 26:14
    67%

    14 No part of these things has been used for food in a time of weeping, or put away when I was unclean, or given for the dead: I have given ear to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done all you have given me orders to do.

  • Dan 10:12
    67%

    12 Then he said to me, Have no fear, Daniel; for from the first day when you gave your heart to getting wisdom and making yourself poor in spirit before your God, your words have come to his ears: and I have come because of your words.

  • Dan 6:18
    67%

    18 Then they got a stone and put it over the mouth of the hole, and it was stamped with the king's stamp and with the stamp of the lords, so that the decision about Daniel might not be changed.

  • Jer 52:34
    67%

    34 And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the rest of his life.

  • Num 6:4
    67%

    4 All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.

  • 1 Sam 28:23
    66%

    23 But he would not, saying, I have no desire for food. But his servants, together with the woman, made him take food, and he gave way to them. So he got up from the earth, and took his seat on the bed.

  • Matt 4:2
    66%

    2 And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.