Daniel 1:16

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So the steward took away their portion of the royal food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.

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  • Dan 1:12 : 12 Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.

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  • Dan 1:2-15
    14 verses
    85%

    2The Lord delivered Jehoiakim, king of Judah, along with some of the vessels from the house of God, into his hand. He brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.

    3The king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his officials, to bring some of the sons of Israel from the royal family and the nobles.

    4They were young men without any physical defect, handsome, skilled in all wisdom, knowledgeable, discerning, and capable of serving in the king's palace. He was to teach them the literature and the language of the Chaldeans.

    5The king assigned them a daily portion from the royal food and wine that he drank. They were to be trained for three years, and at the end of that time, they were to serve before the king.

    6Among them were some from the sons of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

    7The chief of the officials gave them new names: to Daniel, he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.

    8But Daniel resolved in his heart not to defile himself with the royal food or wine. So he requested permission from the chief official not to defile himself.

    9God caused the chief official to show favor and compassion toward Daniel.

    10But the chief official said to Daniel, 'I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other youths your age? You would endanger my life before the king.'

    11Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

    12Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.

    13Then compare our appearance with that of the other youths who are eating the royal food, and deal with your servants according to what you see.

    14So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days.

    15At the end of the ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than all the young men who were eating the royal food.

  • Dan 1:17-20
    4 verses
    75%

    17To these four young men, God gave knowledge and understanding in all kinds of literature and wisdom. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.

    18At the end of the time set by the king to bring them in, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar.

    19The king spoke with them, and among all of them, no one was found to be like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they entered the king's service.

    20In every matter of wisdom and understanding that the king consulted them about, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his entire kingdom.

  • Jer 52:33-34
    2 verses
    70%

    33Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes and regularly ate at the king’s table for the rest of his life.

    34As long as he lived, his regular food allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, day by day, until his death.

  • Esth 1:7
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    7Drinks were served in golden goblets of various designs, and the royal wine flowed in abundance, as befits the king's generosity.

  • Ezek 4:9-11
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    69%

    9Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in one container, and make bread for yourself. For the number of days that you lie on your side—three hundred ninety days—you will eat it.

    10The amount you eat each day will be twenty shekels by weight, and you will eat it at set times each day.

    11You are to drink water by measure, a sixth of a hin, at set times each day.

  • Neh 5:18
    69%

    18Each day, one ox, six choice sheep, and some birds were prepared for me, and every ten days an abundance of wine of all kinds. Despite this, I did not demand the food allotted to the governor, because the burden on the people was heavy.

  • Dan 10:2-3
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    2During those days, I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.

    3I did not eat any rich or desirable food, nor did meat or wine touch my lips. I did not anoint myself at all until the three weeks were over.

  • Ezra 6:9
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    9Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, or lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, as well as wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the request of the priests in Jerusalem—must be provided to them daily without fail.

  • Dan 5:1-2
    2 verses
    66%

    1King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine in their presence.

    2Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar commanded that the gold and silver vessels his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem be brought in, so that the king, his nobles, his wives, and his concubines could drink from them.

  • Gen 41:21
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    21'But even after they had eaten them, no one could tell that they had done so; they still looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.'

  • Neh 5:14
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    14Moreover, from the day I was appointed to be governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes—twelve years—neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.

  • Dan 2:16
    65%

    16So Daniel went in and requested the king to give him time, so that he might reveal the interpretation to the king.

  • Dan 2:18
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    18He asked them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

  • 2 Kgs 25:29-30
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    29Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes and ate regularly at the king's table for the rest of his life.

    30His daily portion was provided by the king, a regular allowance given for each day, all the days of his life.

  • Dan 6:1-2
    2 verses
    65%

    1Darius the Mede received the kingdom at about sixty-two years of age.

    2It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom.

  • Esth 1:4-5
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    4He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the splendor of his majestic greatness for many days—one hundred and eighty days in total.

    5When these days were over, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people who were present in the citadel of Susa, from the greatest to the least, in the courtyard of the garden of the king's palace.

  • Num 29:18
    65%

    18Their grain offering and drink offerings, for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs shall be according to their numbers as prescribed.

  • Num 29:21
    65%

    21Their grain offering and drink offerings, for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs shall be according to their numbers as prescribed.

  • Deut 32:14
    65%

    14Curds from cattle and milk from the flock, with fat from lambs, rams of Bashan breed, and goats, with the finest wheat, and you drank the blood of the grape as wine.

  • Dan 5:24
    65%

    24Therefore, He sent the hand that wrote this inscription.

  • Dan 5:4
    65%

    4They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

  • Num 29:24
    65%

    24Their grain offering and drink offerings, for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs shall be according to their numbers as prescribed.

  • Num 29:27
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    27Their grain offering and drink offerings, for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs shall be according to their numbers as prescribed.

  • 2 Sam 17:28
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    28They brought bedding, bowls, clay utensils, wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils, and more roasted grain.

  • Num 29:30
    64%

    30Their grain offering and drink offerings, for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs shall be according to their numbers as prescribed.

  • Dan 5:13
    64%

    13So Daniel was brought before the king, and the king said to him, 'Are you Daniel, one of the exiles from Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?'