Daniel 1:12
“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- 605 BC
WHEN
605 BC
dated by the text itself
The first of the three deportations, in the same year as the Battle of Carchemish.
WHO RULED
- Nebuchadnezzar II king of Babylon 605-562 BC
- Neco II pharaoh of Egypt 610-595 BC
MEANWHILE
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605 BC Syria
Nebuchadnezzar defeats the Egyptians at Carchemish
The battle that hands the Levant to Babylon, in the same year that Daniel 1:1 begins.
SOURCES
- date — Daniel 1:1 dates itself by the third year of Jehoiakim; the Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 5) puts Nebuchadnezzar's first campaign in the Levant in 605 BC.
- Nebuchadnezzar II — Babylonian Chronicles (ABC 5), which date the Battle of Carchemish and the first campaign against Judah; Berossus, cited by Josephus in Against Apion I
- Neco II — Babylonian Chronicles (ABC 5), Battle of Carchemish; Herodotus II
- Nebuchadnezzar defeats the Egyptians at Carchemish — Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 5); Jeremiah 46:2 names the same battle
SEE ALSO
- Romans 14:2 For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.
- Genesis 1:29-30 Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food. …
- Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but…
- Daniel 1:16 So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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