Daniel 10:3
I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips, nor did I anoint myself with oil until the end of those three weeks.
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- Dan 6:18 : 18 Then the king departed to his palace. But he spent the night without eating, and no diversions were brought to him. He was unable to sleep.
- Matt 6:17 : 17 When you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
- 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.
- 2 Sam 19:24 : 24 Now Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, came down to meet the king. From the day the king had left until the day he safely returned, Mephibosheth had not cared for his feet nor trimmed his mustache nor washed his clothes.
- Job 33:20 : 20 so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.
- Isa 24:6-9 : 6 So a treaty curse devours the earth; its inhabitants pay for their guilt. This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear, and are reduced to just a handful of people. 7 The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan. 8 The happy sound of the tambourines stops, the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt, the happy sound of the harp ceases. 9 They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it. 10 The ruined town is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight. 11 They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; all joy turns to sorrow; celebrations disappear from the earth.
- Dan 11:8 : 8 He will also take their gods into captivity to Egypt, along with their cast images and prized utensils of silver and gold. Then he will withdraw for some years from the king of the north.
- Amos 5:11 : 11 Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.
- Nah 2:9 : 9 Her conquerors cry out:“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure; riches of every kind of precious thing.
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- Dan 10:1-22 verses87%
1 An Angel Appears to Daniel In the third year of King Cyrus of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel(who was also called Belteshazzar). This message was true and concerned a great war. He understood the message and gained insight by the vision.
2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three whole weeks.
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4 On the twenty-fourth day of the first month I was beside the great river, the Tigris.
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8 But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the royal delicacies or the royal wine. He therefore asked the overseer of the court officials for permission not to defile himself.
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3 So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
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5 So the king assigned them a daily ration from his royal delicacies and from the wine he himself drank. They were to be trained for the next three years. At the end of that time they were to enter the king’s service.
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9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
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18 Then I again fell down before the LORD for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the LORD as to enrage him.
- Dan 1:10-167 verses71%
10 But he responded to Daniel,“I fear my master the king. He is the one who has decided your food and drink. What would happen if he saw that you looked malnourished in comparison to the other young men your age? If that happened, you would endanger my life with the king!”
11 Daniel then spoke to the warden whom the overseer of the court officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
12 “Please test your servants for ten days by providing us with some vegetables to eat and water to drink.
13 Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who are eating the royal delicacies; deal with us in light of what you see.”
14 So the warden agreed to their proposal and tested them for ten days.
15 At the end of the ten days their appearance was better and their bodies were healthier than all the young men who had been eating the royal delicacies.
16 So the warden removed the delicacies and the wine from their diet and gave them a diet of vegetables instead.
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27 I, Daniel, was exhausted and sick for days. Then I got up and again carried out the king’s business. But I was astonished at the vision, and there was no one to explain it.
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12 They gave him a slice of pressed figs and two bunches of raisins to eat. This greatly refreshed him, for he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.
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14 From the day that I was appointed governor in the land of Judah, that is, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes– twelve years in all– neither I nor my relatives ate the food allotted to the governor.
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15 An Angel Interprets Daniel’s Vision“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed, and the visions of my mind were alarming me.
- Ezek 4:9-102 verses70%
9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side– 390 days– you will eat it.
10 The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.
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14 And I said,“Ah, Sovereign LORD, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”
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19 You will eat, not just one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,
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18 Every day one ox, six select sheep, and some birds were prepared for me, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Despite all this I did not require the food allotted to the governor, for the work was demanding on this people.
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8 I alone was left to see this great vision. My strength drained from me, and my vigor disappeared; I was without energy.
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35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying,“God will punish me severely if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”
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9 For three days he could not see, and he neither ate nor drank anything.
- Dan 10:15-162 verses68%
15 While he was saying this to me, I was flat on the ground and unable to speak.
16 Then one who appeared to be a human being was touching my lips. I opened my mouth and started to speak, saying to the one who was standing before me,“Sir, due to the vision, anxiety has gripped me and I have no strength.
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2 where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.
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6 Then Ezra got up from in front of the temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he stayed there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.
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6 You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer– all so that you might know that I am the LORD your God!
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28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
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9 For this is how I was commanded in the LORD’s message,‘Eat no food. Drink no water. And do not return by the way you came.’”
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24 I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.
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3 He said to me,“Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.” So I ate it, and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.
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16 But he replied,“I can’t go back with you. I am not allowed to eat food or to drink water with you in this place.
17 For an order came to me in the LORD’s message,‘Eat no food. Drink no water there. And do not return by the way you came.’”
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33 As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying,“Today is the fourteenth day you have been in suspense and have gone without food; you have eaten nothing.
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4 When I heard these things I sat down abruptly, crying and mourning for several days. I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
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20 so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.
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8 So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
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14 I have not eaten anything when I was in mourning, or removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; I have obeyed you and have done everything you have commanded me.
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12 Then he said to me,“Don’t be afraid, Daniel, for from the very first day you applied your mind to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come in response to your words.
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18 Then the king departed to his palace. But he spent the night without eating, and no diversions were brought to him. He was unable to sleep.
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34 He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.
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4 All the days of his separation he must not eat anything that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin.
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23 But he refused, saying,“I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged him to eat, so he gave in. He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.
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2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.