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Daniel 1:1 In the third year of the reign of

Jehoiakim

3 Then the king ordered …to bring into the

king’s service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the

nobility— 

4 young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every

kind of learning,

well informed, quick to understand, and qualified

to serve in the king’s palace.

He was to teach them the language and literature of the

Babylonians.

5 The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the

king’s table. 

They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the

king’s service.

8 But Daniel resolved not to defile himself

with the royal food and wine,

and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.

Deuteronomy14:10 

...for you it is unclean.

Deuteronomy 14:21 

…But you are a people holy to the LORD your

God.

Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests do violence to my law and profane

my holy things;  

they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that

there is no difference between the unclean and

the clean;

and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my

Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. 

9 Now God had caused the official to show

favor and compassion to Daniel, 

10 but the official told Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your food

and drink. 

Why should he see you looking worse

than the other young men your age?

The king would then have my head because of you.”

 12 “Please test your servants for ten days:

Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and

water to drink. 

13 Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who

eat the royal food,

and treat your servants in accordance with what

you see.” 

15 At the end of the ten days they looked

healthier and better nourished than any of the

young men who ate the royal food.

16 So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them

vegetables instead.

17 To these four young men God gave knowledge and

understanding of all kinds of literature and

learning. 

And Daniel could understand visions and

dreams of all kinds.

19 The king talked with them, and he found

none equal

20 In every matter of wisdom and

understanding about which the king

questioned them,

he found them ten times better than all the

magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.

21 And Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus.

Isaiah 45:13 

I will raise up Cyrus in my righteousness:

    I will make all his ways straight.

He will rebuild my city    and set my exiles free,

but not for a price or reward, says

the LORD Almighty.”

9:2 “…Daniel, understood from the

Scriptures,

according to the word of the LORD given to Jeremiah the prophet,

that the desolation of Jerusalem would last

seventy years. 

Jer 29:5 

“Buildhouses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 

6 Marry and have sons and daughters;

find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and

daughters.

Increase in number there; do not decrease.

7 Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have

carried you into exile.

Pray to the LORD for it, because if it

prospers, you too will prosper.”

Daniel 9:3 So I turned to the Lord God and

pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in

fasting....

5 we have sinned and done wrong. 

Proverbs 28:13

Whoever conceals their sins does not

prosper,    

but the one who confesses and renounces

them finds mercy.

Daniel 9:18

We do not make requests of you because

we are righteous, but because of your great

mercy. 

Isaiah 30:18 

Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you;

     he rises to show you compassion…

19  …How gracious he will be when you cry for

help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.

Jeremiah 33:3

‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you

great and unsearchable things you

do not know.’