Daniel 1:4

New Century Version

King Nebuchadnezzar wanted only young Israelite men who had nothing wrong with them. They were to be handsome and well educated, capable of learning and understanding, and able to serve in his palace. Ashpenaz was to teach them the language and writings of the Babylonians.

Cross References

Genesis 41:46

Joseph was thirty years old when he began serving the king of Egypt. And he left the king’s court and traveled through all the land of Egypt.

2 Samuel 14:25

Absalom was greatly praised for his handsome appearance. No man in Israel was as handsome as he. No blemish was on him from his head to his foot.

Proverbs 22:29

Do you see people skilled in their work? They will work for kings, not for ordinary people.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom makes a person stronger than ten leaders in a city.

Isaiah 36:11

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to us in the Aramaic language. We understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew, because the people on the city wall can hear you.”

Jeremiah 5:15

Listen, family of Israel,” says the Lord, “I will soon bring a nation from far away to attack you. It is an old nation that has lasted a long time. The people there speak a language you do not know; you cannot understand what they say.

Daniel 2:10

The wise men answered the king, saying, “No one on earth can do what the king asks! No great and powerful king has ever asked the fortune-tellers, magicians, or wise men to do this;

Daniel 2:2

So the king called for his fortune-tellers, magicians, wizards, and wise men, because he wanted them to tell him what he had dreamed. They came in and stood in front of the king.

Daniel 3:8

Then some Babylonians came up to the king and began speaking against the men of Judah.

Daniel 4:7

The fortune-tellers, magicians, and wise men came, and I told them about the dream. But they could not tell me what it meant.

Daniel 5:11

There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, this man showed understanding, knowledge, and wisdom like the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, put this man in charge of all the wise men, fortune-tellers, magicians, and wizards.

Daniel 5:7

The king called for the magicians, wise men, and wizards of Babylon and said to them, “Anyone who can read this writing and explain it will receive purple clothes fit for a king and a gold chain around his neck. And I will make that person the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”

Daniel 9:1

These things happened during the first year Darius son of Xerxes was king over Babylon. He was a descendant of the Medes.

Zechariah 2:4

The second angel said to him, “Run and tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will become a city without walls, because there will be so many people and cattle in it.

Acts 7:20

At this time Moses was born, and he was very beautiful. For three months Moses was cared for in his father’s house.

Acts 7:22

The Egyptians taught Moses everything they knew, and he was a powerful man in what he said and did.

Ephesians 5:27

He died so that he could give the church to himself like a bride in all her beauty. He died so that the church could be pure and without fault, with no evil or sin or any other wrong thing in it.

Judges 8:18

Gideon asked Zebah and Zalmunna, “What were the men like that you killed on Mount Tabor?” They answered, “They were like you. Each one of them looked like a prince.”