So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.
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So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.
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So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
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So he hearkened unto them in this matter, and tried them ten days.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Dan 1:14 So he consented to them in this…
Dan 1:14 So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
Ver. 14. So he consented to them in this matter.] This had been well done, if done for God’s sake; but it was nothing less. He had a hawk’s eye herein to his own profit; he favoured them because he meant to finger something from them. These four made a mess.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So he consented to them in all this matter,....…
So he consented to them in all this matter,.... Or, "hearkened to them" (e); being convinced that it was a very reasonable request, and the matter was fairly put; and especially as he saw, if it succeeded to their wish, it would be to his profit; since the meat and drink of these four persons would be his perquisite, and fetch him money; pulse and water being to be obtained at an easy rate:
and proved them ten days; tried the experiment, by giving them pulse and water only during this time, in order to see how it would agree with them; and whether any visible alteration could be discerned in their countenances, so as to bring him or his master into suspicion and danger.
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(e) "auscultans eis", Junius & Tremellius, Broughtonus; "auscultavit eis", Pisator, Cocceius.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain So he consented to them in this matter -…
So he consented to them in this matter - Hebrew, “he heard them in this thing.” The experiment was such, since it was to be for so short a time, that he ran little risk in the matter, as at the end of the ten days he supposed that it would be easy to change their mode of diet if the trial was unsuccessful.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 14. consented] hearkened (R.V.),—the expression exactly as 1Sa_30:24.
14. consented] hearkened (R.V.),—the expression exactly as 1Sa_30:24.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain So he consented to them in this matter, and…
So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. The literal rendering is, And he hearkened unto them as to this matter, proved them ten days. The Septuagint reading is again peculiar, "And he dealt with them after this manner, and proved them ten days." m is not very unlike h nor dbdl very unlike rbdk, and this is all the change implied. The Massoretic reading seems the more natural, but it might be argued that this very naturalness is the result of an effort to make the Hebrew more flowing. But further, from the fact that hce (asayh), imperative of the same verb, precedes almost immediately, the word might come in by accident, or another word somewhat like it might be misread into it. The consent of the subordinate official implies, if not the consent, at least the connivance, of the superior. As we have already explained from the arrangements of a Babylonian feast, the plan of the Hebrew youths could the more easily be carried out.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 tested them ... their appearance ... they were ...…
tested them ... their appearance ... they were ... their delicacies ... their wine
All of these pronouns refer to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
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nourished
This means to have been made healthy from what you have eaten.
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