The king assigned them a daily portion of (A)the food that the king ate, and of (B)the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for (C)three years, and at the end of that time they were to (D)stand before the king.

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19 And the king spoke with them, and among all of them none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore (A)they stood before the king.

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Daniel's Faithfulness

But Daniel (A)resolved that he would not (B)defile himself with (C)the king's food, or with (D)the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to (E)defile himself.

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(A)Happy are your men! Happy are your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!

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36 But (A)stay awake at all times, (B)praying that you may (C)have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and (D)to stand before the Son of Man.”

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(A)Give us (B)each day our daily bread,[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:3 Or our bread for tomorrow

11 (A)Give us (B)this day our daily bread,[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:11 Or our bread for tomorrow

19 Therefore thus says the Lord:
(A)“If you return, I will restore you,
    and you shall (B)stand before me.
If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless,
    you shall be as my mouth.
They shall turn to you,
    but you shall not turn to them.

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Happy are your wives![a] Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 9:7 Septuagint (compare 1 Kings 10:8); Hebrew men

30 and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, according to his daily needs, as long as he lived.

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22 Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors[a] of fine flour and sixty cors of meal, 23 ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 4:22 A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters

22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for he has found favor in my sight.”

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46 Joseph was thirty years old when he (A)entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

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19 And the angel answered him, “I am (A)Gabriel. (B)I stand in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

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