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Dan 1:4 — Children in whom [was] no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as [had] ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Children		The word yeladim, rendered children, is frequently used for lads, or young men. (see Gen 21:8, 14-16,) [neaniskous] as the LXX. render; and Daniel must have been at this time at least seventeen or eighteen years of age.
in whom		Lev 21:18-21; Lev 24:19,20; Jdg 8:18; 2Sa 14:25; Act 7:20; Eph 5:27
and skilful		"Rather, as Houbigant renders, ""apt to understand wisdom, to acquire knowledge, and to attain science;"" for it was not a knowledge of the sciences, but merely a capacity to learn them, that was required. Dan 2:20,21; Dan 5:11; Ecc 7:19; Act 7:22"
ability		Dan 1:17-20; Pro 22:29

Correlating Passages

Children

	Gen 21:8	And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the [same] day that Isaac was weaned.
	Gen 21:14	And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave [it] unto Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
	Gen 21:15	And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
	Gen 21:16	And she went, and sat her down over against [him] a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against [him], and lift up her voice, and wept.

in whom

	Lev 21:18	For whatsoever man [he be] that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
	Lev 21:19	Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
	Lev 21:20	Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
	Lev 21:21	No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
	Lev 24:19	And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
	Lev 24:20	Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him [again].
	Jdg 8:18	Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men [were they] whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou [art], so [were] they; each one resembled the children of a king.
	2Sa 14:25	But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
	Act 7:20	In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:
	Eph 5:27	That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

and skilful

	Dan 2:20	Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
	Dan 2:21	And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
	Dan 5:11	There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom [is] the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, [I say], thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, [and] soothsayers;
	Ecc 7:19	Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty [men] which are in the city.
	Act 7:22	And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

ability

	Dan 1:17	As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
	Dan 1:18	Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
	Dan 1:19	And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king.
	Dan 1:20	And in all matters of wisdom [and] understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians [and] astrologers that [were] in all his realm.
	Pro 22:29	Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean [men].

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