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Daniel 1:17-21

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1:17 Now as for these four young men, God endowed them with knowledge and skill in all sorts of literature and wisdom – and Daniel had insight into all kinds of visions and dreams.

1:18 When the time appointed by the king arrived,¹ the overseer of the court officials brought them into Nebuchadnezzar’s presence. 1:19 When the king spoke with them, he did not find among the entire group² anyone like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, or Azariah. So they entered the king’s service.³ 1:20 In every matter of wisdom and⁴ insight the king asked them about, he found them to be ten times⁵ better than any of the magicians and astrologers that were in his entire empire. 1:21 Now Daniel lived on until the first⁶ year of Cyrus the king.

¹tn Heb “at the end of the days which the king said to bring them.”

²tn Heb “from all of them.”

³tn Heb “stood before the king.”

⁴tc The MT lacks the conjunction, reading the first word in the phrase as a construct (“wisdom of insight”). While this reading is not impossible, it seems better to follow Theodotion, the Syriac, the Vulgate, and the Sahidic Coptic, all of which have the conjunction.

⁵tn Heb “hands.”

⁶sn The Persian king Cyrus’ first year in control of Babylon was 539 B.C. Daniel actually lived beyond the first year of Cyrus, as is clear from 10:1. The purpose of the statement in 1:21 is merely to say that Daniel’s life spanned the entire period of the neo-Babylonian empire. His life span also included the early years of the Persian control of Babylon. However, by that time his age was quite advanced; he probably died sometime in the 530’s B.C.

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