Daniel 1:8
However, Daniel made up his mind not to make himself impure by eating the king's rich food and wine. He asked the chief eunuch to allow him not to make himself impure.
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9God had helped Daniel to be viewed with kindness and sympathy by the chief eunuch.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:45I am the Lord who led you out of Egypt so that I could be your God. So be holy, because I am holy.
Ruth 1:17Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me harshly if I let anything but death separate us!”
Psalms 106:28They gave their allegiance to Baal Peor, and ate food sacrificed to the dead.
Psalms 119:115Leave me alone, you evil people, and let me keep the commandments of my God.
Ezekiel 4:13Then the Lord said, “This is the way the Israelites will eat their unclean bread among the nations where I'll exile them.”
Hosea 9:3You will not stay in the Lord's land, instead Ephraim will return to Egypt, and will eat unclean food in Assyria.
Matthew Henry on Daniel 1:2-8
Daniel The book of Ezekiel left the affairs of Jerusalem under a doleful aspect, all in ruins, but with a joyful prospect of all in glory again. This of Daniel fitly follows. Ezekiel told us what was seen, and what was foreseen, by him in the former years of the captivity: Daniel tells us what was seen, and foreseen, in the latter years of the captivity. When God employs different hands, yet it is about the same work. And it was a comfort to the poor captives that they had first one prophet among them and then… Read the whole commentary →