Daniel 1:4 Cross References - Thomson

⁴ some youths who had no blemish, and who were of a good countenance, studious of every science, improved in knowledge and understanding and qualified to stand in the house before the king; and to instruct them in the learning and language of the Chaldeans.

¹⁸ No man who hath any blemish, who is blind, or lame, or hath a hare lip, or a slit ear; ¹⁹ nor any man who hath a contortion in the hand, or a splay foot, ²⁰ or who is hump backed, or dim sighted, or blear eyed, nor any man who hath the scurvy, or the itch, or a rupture; ²¹ No person of the seed of Aaron the priest, who hath any blemish about him, shall come near to offer the sacrifices of thy God. Because he hath a blemish he shall not come near to offer the gifts of God.

¹⁹ And whosoever shall cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done to him, so shall it be done to himself; ²⁰ bruise for bruise; eye for eye; tooth for tooth; according to the blemish he hath given the man, so shall it be returned to him.

¹⁸ Then he said to Zebee and Salmana, What sort of men were they whom ye slew at Thabor? And they said, As thou art so were they. They resembled the children of a king.

²⁵ Now in all Israel there was not a man so very comely as Abessalom. From the sole of his foot, to the crown of his head, there was not a blemish in him.

²⁹ A man clear in his perceptions and quick in the despatch of business should stand before kings and not wait on slothful men.

¹⁹ wisdom will help the wise man more than ten mighty men who are in the city.

¹⁷ And as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and understanding in all literature and science; and Daniel was skilled in all visions and dreams. ¹⁸ And at the end of the years which the king had appointed for introducing them, the high chamberlain brought them in before Nabuchodonosar. ¹⁹ And the king conversed with them. And among them all there were none found equal to Daniel and Ananias and Misael and Azarias. So they stood before the king. ²⁰ And in every subject of wisdom and science on which the king questioned them he found them ten times more skilled than all the soothsayers and the magians who were in the realm.

² And the king gave orders to call the soothsayers and the magians and the chymists and the Chaldees that they might tell the king his dream.

⁴ Whereupon the Chaldees said to the king in Syriac, king, live forever. Tell thy servants the dream and we will explain the meaning. ⁵ The king answered the Chaldees, The subject is gone from me. If you do not tell me the dream and the interpretation you shall be put to death and your houses shall be exposed to plunder.

¹⁰ The Chaldees answered in the presence of the king and said, There is not a man on the earth who can make known what the king requireth; nor doth any king or ruler, however great, ask such a thing, of any soothsayer, magian or Chaldee.

²⁰ "Blessed be the name of God from everlasting to everlasting; for wisdom and knowledge are his; ²¹ and he changeth times and seasons. He setteth up kings and removeth them. He giveth wisdom to the wise and understanding to them who have knowledge.

⁸ Then came certain Chaldeans, and stated to the king an accusation against the Jews,

⁷ And when the soothsayers, the magians, the gazarenes, the Chaldees came in, I told my dream before them; but they did not explain to me the meaning of it until

⁷ And the king cried aloud to bring in the magians, Chaldees, gazarenes. And he said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing and explain to me the meaning, he shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold for his neck and shall be a chief, third in rank, in my kingdom.

¹¹ There is in thy kingdom a man, in whom is a spirit of a god, and in the clays of thy father, light and knowledge were found in him, and the king Nabuchodonosar thy father appointed him chief of the soothsayers, Chaldees, gazarenes,

²⁰ At this time Moses was born, who was exceeding beautiful, and was nursed up three months in his father's house.

²² So Moses was instructed in all the wisdom .of the Egyptians, and became mighty in council and in actions.

²⁷ that he might present it to himself as the glorious congregation, having neither spot, nor wrinkle, nor any defect whatever; but that it may be holy and without blemish.