Daniel 1:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

meat. food. Hebrew. pathbag.. Persian or Aryan word. Occurs only in Daniel.

wine. Hebrew. yayin. App-27.

three years. Say 497, 496, and 495 B.C. See note on Daniel 2:1. It does not say these years were concluded before the events of Dan. took place.

stand before the king. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 41:46).

Daniel 1:5

5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the winea which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.