Daniel 1:16

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Thus Melassar toke away the portion of their meate, and the wyne that they shoulde drinke, and gaue them pulse.

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  • Dan 1:12 : 12 O proue but ten dayes with thy seruauntes, and let vs haue pulse to eate, and water to drinke.

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  • Dan 1:2-15
    14 verses
    85%

    2And the Lord deliuered Iehoachim the king of Iuda into his hande, with part of the vessels of the house of God, which he caried away into the lande of Sennar to the house of his God, and he brought the vessels into his gods treasurie.

    3And the king spake vnto Asphenaz the chiefe chamberlaine, that he should bring him certaine of the children of Israel, of the kinges seede, and of the princes,

    4Springaldes without any blemishe, but well fauoured, studious in al wisdome, skilfull for knowledge, able to vtter knowledge, & such as haue liuelinesse in the that they may stand in the kinges palace: & whom they might teache the learning & the toung of the Chaldeans.

    5Unto these the king appoynted a dayly prouision euery day, of a portion of the kinges meate, and of the wine which he dranke, so to norishe them three yeres, that afterwarde they might stande before the king.

    6Among these nowe were certayne of the children of Iuda: namely Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias.

    7Unto these the chiefe chamberlayne gaue other names, and called Daniel, Baltassar: Ananias, Sidrach: Misael, Misach: and Azarias, Abednego.

    8But Daniel purposed in his heart that he woulde not defile hym selfe with the portion of the kinges meate, nor with the wyne which he dranke: therefore he required the chiefe chamberlayne that he might not defile him selfe.

    9(And God brought Daniel into fauour and tender loue with the chiefe chamberlayne.)

    10And the chiefe chamberlayne sayde vnto Daniel, I am afrayde of my lord the king whiche hath appoynted you your meate and your drinke: wherfore should he see your faces worse liking then the springalds of your age, & so ye shal make me indaunger my head vnto the king.

    11Then Daniel sayde vnto Melassar, whom the chiefe chamberlayne had set ouer Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias:

    12O proue but ten dayes with thy seruauntes, and let vs haue pulse to eate, and water to drinke.

    13Then let our countenaunces be loked vpon before thee, and the countenaunces of the children that eate of the portion of the kinges meate: and as thou seest, deale with thy seruauntes.

    14So he consented to them in this matter, and proued them ten dayes.

    15And at the end of ten dayes, their countenaunces appeared fairer and fatter in fleshe then all the childrens which did eate the portion of the kinges meate.

  • Dan 1:17-20
    4 verses
    75%

    17As for these foure children, God gaue them knowledge and vnderstanding in all learning & wysdome: also he gaue Daniel vnderstanding of all visions and dreames.

    18Nowe when the time was expired, that the king had appoynted to bring them in, the chiefe chamberlayne brought them before Nabuchodonozor.

    19And the king communed with them: but among them all were founde none such as Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias: therfore stoode they before the king.

    20In all matters of wysdome and vnderstanding that the king enquired of them, he founde them ten times better then all the wyse men and soothsayers that were in all his realme.

  • Jer 52:33-34
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    70%

    33He chaunged also the clothes of his prison, yea and did eate with hym all his life long.

    34And he had a continuall lyuyng geuen hym of the kyng of Babylon, euery day a certayne thyng alowed hym, all the dayes of his life, vntyll he dyed.

  • Esth 1:7
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    7And they dranke in vessels of gold, and chaunged vessel after vessel, and royal wine in aboundaunce, according to the power of the king.

  • Ezek 4:9-11
    3 verses
    69%

    9Wherfore take vnto thee wheate, barlye, beanes, lintils, millot, and fetches, and put these together in a vessell, and make thee loaues of bread thereof, according to the number of the dayes that thou must lye vpon thy side, that thou mayest haue bread to eate for three hundred and ninetie dayes.

    10And thy meate that thou eatest shall haue a certaine wayght appointed, namely twentie sicles euery day: & from time to time shalt thou eate therof.

    11Thou shalt drinke also a certaine measure of water namely the sixt part of an Hin from tyme to tyme shalt thou drinke.

  • Neh 5:18
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    18And there was prepared for me dayly an oxe and sixe chosen sheepe, and birdes were prepared for me: and euer once in ten dayes wine for all in aboundance: Yet required not I the liuing of a captayne, for the bondage was greeuous vnto the people.

  • Dan 10:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2At the same time, I Daniel mourned for the space of three weekes of dayes.

    3I ate no pleasaunt bread, as for flesh and wine there came none within my mouth: no, I did not once annoynt my selfe till the whole three weekes of dayes were fulfilled.

  • Ezra 6:9
    67%

    9And if they haue neede of calues, rammes, and lambes for the burnt offering of the God of heauen, wheate, salte, wine, and oyle, after the custome of the priestes at Hierusalem, let the same be geuen them dayly without any delay:

  • Dan 5:1-2
    2 verses
    66%

    1King Balthasar made a great feast to a thousand of his princes, and dranke wine before the thousande.

    2And Balthasar when he had tasted the wine, commaunded to bring hym the golden and siluer vessels, whiche his father Nabuchodonozor had brought from the temple in Hierusalem, that the king and his princes, and his wyues, and his concubines, might drinke therin.

  • Gen 41:21
    66%

    21And when they had eaten them vp, a man coulde not perceaue that they had eaten them, but they were styll yll fauoured as they were at the begynnyng: and I awoke.

  • Neh 5:14
    66%

    14And from the time foorth that the king committed vnto me to be captayne of them that were in the lande of Iuda, euen from the twentie yere, vnto the thirtie & two yere of king Artaxerxes, that is twelue yeres, I with my brethre liued not of such sustinaunce as was geuen to a captayne.

  • Dan 2:16
    65%

    16Upon this went Daniel, and desired the king that he woulde geue him leysure, and that he would shewe the king the interpretation.

  • Dan 2:18
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    18That they shoulde beseche the God of heauen for grace in this secrete, that Daniel and his felowes, with other such as were wyse in Babylon, perished not.

  • 2 Kgs 25:29-30
    2 verses
    65%

    29And chaunged his pryson garmentes, and he did euer eate bread before him al the dayes of his lyfe.

    30His portion was a continuall portion that was assigned him of the king, euery day a certaine as long as he lyued.

  • Dan 6:1-2
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    65%

    1It pleased Darius to set ouer his kingdome a hundred and twentie gouernours, which should be ouer the whole kingdome.

    2Aboue these he set three princes, of whom Daniel was one, that the gouernours might geue accomptes vnto them, and the king shoulde haue no damage.

  • Esth 1:4-5
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    65%

    4And he shewed the richesse and glorie of his kingdome, and the glorious worship of his greatnesse many dayes long, euen an hundred and fourescore dayes.

    5And when these dayes were expired, the king made a feast vnto al the people that were in Susan the chiefe citie, both vnto great & small, seuen dayes long, in the court of the garden by the kinges palace.

  • Num 29:18
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    18And let their meate offerynges and drynke offerynges, vnto the bullockes, rammes, and lambes, be accordyng to the number of them, & after the maner.

  • Num 29:21
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    21And let their meate and drynke offerynges vnto the bullockes, rammes, and lambes, be after the number of them, and accordyng to the maner.

  • Deut 32:14
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    14With butter of kine, and mylke of the sheepe, with fat of the lambes, and fat of rammes and hee goates, with the fat of the most plenteous wheate, and that thou myghtest drynke the most pure blood of the grape.

  • Dan 5:24
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    24Then was the knockles of the hand sent from him, and hath written this writing.

  • Dan 5:4
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    4They drunke wine, & praysed the gods of golde, siluer, brasse, iron, wood, and stone.

  • Num 29:24
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    24Let their meate & drynke offeringes vnto the bullockes, rammes, & lambes, be accordyng to the number of them, and after the maner:

  • Num 29:27
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    27And let their meate and drynke offeringes vnto the bullockes, rammes, and lambes, be accordyng to the number of them, and after the maner:

  • 2 Sam 17:28
    64%

    28Brought beddes, basens, earthen vessels, wheat and barly, floure & parched corne, beanes, lentiles, & parched pulse,

  • Num 29:30
    64%

    30And let their meate and drynke offeringes vnto the bullockes, rammes, and lambes, be accordyng to the number of them, after the maner:

  • Dan 5:13
    64%

    13Then was Daniel brought before the king: so the king spake vnto Daniel, and sayde, Art thou that Daniel, whiche art of the children of the captiuitie of Iuda, whom my father the king brought out of Iurie?