Daniel 1:12 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 1:12

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

KJV

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Give us pulse to eat - הזרעים hazzeraim, seeds or grain, such as barley, wheat, rye, and peas, etc. Though a vegetable diet might have produced that healthiness of the system in general, and of the countenance particularly, as mentioned here; yet we are to understand that there was an especial blessing of God in this, because this spare diet was taken on a religious account.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
נַס־	nas-	put to [the] test	H5254 →
נָ֥א	na'	please	H4994 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
עֲבָדֶ֖יךָ	'a.va.Dei.kha	servants your	H5650 →
יָמִ֣ים	ya.Mim	days	H3117 →
עֲשָׂרָ֑ה	'a.sa.Rah	ten	H6235 →
וְיִתְּנוּ־	ve.yi.te.nu-	so let people give	H5414 →
לָ֜נוּ	La.nu	to us
מִן־	min-	some of	H4480 →
הַזֵּרֹעִ֛ים	ha.ze.ro.'Im	the vegetables	H2235 →
וְנֹאכְלָ֖ה	ve.no.khe.Lah	so we may eat	H398 →
וּמַ֥יִם	u.Ma.yim	and water	H4325 →
וְנִשְׁתֶּֽה׃	ve.nish.Teh	so we may drink	H8354 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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,…
leads to
- Matthew 4:4
  But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
- Luke 4:4
  But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”
- Hebrews 13:5–6
  Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
- Psalms 78:23–25
  Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
- 1 Corinthians 10:3
  They all ate the same spiritual food
Through
Romans 14:2
For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.
leads to
- 1 Timothy 4:4
  For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
- Proverbs 15:17
  Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
- Romans 14:14
  I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.