Daniel 1:8
And Daniel purposed in his heart, that he would not defile himself with the king's table, nor with the wine of his drink: and he entreated the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
9Now God had brought Daniel into favor and compassion with the chief of the eunuchs.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:45For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God; and you⌃ shall be holy, for I the Lord am holy.
Ruth 1:17And wherever you die, I will die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if I leave you, for death only shall divide between me and you.
Psalms 106:28Then they cry to the Lord in their affliction, and he brings them out of their distresses. 1
Ezekiel 4:13And you shall say, Thus says the Lord God of Israel; Thus shall the children of Israel eat unclean things among the Gentiles.
Hosea 9:3They lived not in the Lord's land: Ephraim lived in Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.
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 →