# Daniel 1:12

> “Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.

— Daniel 1:12, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- 605 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: 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.

## Who ruled

- **Nebuchadnezzar II**, king of Babylon, 605-562 BC · Source: 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**, pharaoh of Egypt, 610-595 BC · Source: Babylonian Chronicles (ABC 5), Battle of Carchemish; Herodotus II

## See also

- Romans 14:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/14/2
- Genesis 1:29-30 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/1/29
- Deuteronomy 8:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/deuteronomy/8/3
- Daniel 1:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/1/16

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/1/12
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/1
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).