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A King's Strategic Plan
Commentators highlight Nebuchadnezzar's deliberate strategy: select the most physically perfect and intellectually gifted youths from conquered nations. His goal was to re-educate them in Babylonian culture and language, assimilating them to serve and strengthen his own empire. This reveals how worldly systems often seek to co-opt the best talent for their own purposes.
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Daniel
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Albert Barnes
On Daniel 1:4
18th Century
Theologian
Children in whom was no blemish - The word rendered “children” in this place (ילדים yelâdı̂ym) is different fro…
Charles Ellicott
On Daniel 1:4
19th Century
Bishop
Children. If the Babylonian customs were similar to the Persian, it is probable that the course of education would begin at an ear…
Charles Spurgeon
On Daniel 1:3–4
19th Century
Preacher
And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and…
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John Calvin
On Daniel 1:4
16th Century
Theologian
In yesterday’s lecture, we saw how the chief official of the eunuchs was commanded to bring some noble youths, the descendants of the king and the …
John Gill
On Daniel 1:4
17th Century
Pastor
Children in whom was no blemish
Not mere children, but young men of fifteen or twenty years of age; about which age …
Matthew Henry
On Daniel 1:1–7
17th Century
Minister
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, took Jerusalem and carried away whomever and whatever he pleased. From this first …