Foundation For Life!

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Foundation For Life!
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Daniel 11 In the third year of the reign of
Jehoiakim
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3 Then the king ordered to bring into the kings
service some of the Israelites from the royal
family and the nobility 
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4 young men without any physical defect,
handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of
learning,
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well informed, quick to understand, and qualified
to serve in the kings palace.
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He was to teach them the language and literature
of the Babylonians.
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5 The king assigned them a daily amount of food
and wine from the kings table. 
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They were to be trained for three years, and
after that they were to enter the kings service.
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8 But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with
the royal food and wine,
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and he asked the chief official for permission
not to defile himself this way.
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Deuteronomy1410 ...for you it is unclean.
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Deuteronomy 1421 But you are a people holy to
the Lord your God.
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Ezekiel 2226 Her priests do violence to my
law and profane my holy things  
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they do not distinguish between the holy and the
common they teach that there is no difference
between the unclean and the clean
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and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my
Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. 
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9 Now God had caused the official to show
favor and compassion to Daniel, 
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10 but the official told Daniel, I am afraid of
my lord the king, who has assigned your food and
drink. 
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Why should he see you looking worse than the
other young men your age?
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The king would then have my head because of you.
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 12 Please test your servants for ten days Give
us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to
drink. 
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13 Then compare our appearance with that of the
young men who eat the royal food,
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and treat your servants in accordance with what
you see. 
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15 At the end of the ten days they looked
healthier and better nourished than any of the
young men who ate the royal food.
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16 So the guard took away their choice food and
the wine they were to drink and gave them
vegetables instead.
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17 To these four young men God gave knowledge and
understanding of all kinds of literature and
learning. 
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And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of
all kinds.
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19 The king talked with them, and he found none
equal
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20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding
about which the king questioned them,
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he found them ten times better than all the
magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.
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21 And Daniel remained there until the first year
of King Cyrus.
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Isaiah 4513 I will raise up Cyrus in my
righteousness    I will make all his ways
straight.
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He will rebuild my city    and set my exiles
free,but not for a price or reward, says
the Lord Almighty.
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92 Daniel, understood from the Scriptures,
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according to the word of the Lord given to
Jeremiah the prophet,
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that the desolation of Jerusalem would last
seventy years. 
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Jer 295 Buildhouses and settle down plant
gardens and eat what they produce. 
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6 Marry and have sons and daughters
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find wives for your sons and give your daughters
in marriage, so that they too may have sons and
daughters.
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Increase in number there do not decrease.
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7 Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city
to which I have carried you into exile.
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Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers,
you too will prosper.
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Daniel 93 So I turned to the Lord God and
pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in
fasting....
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5 we have sinned and done wrong. 
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Proverbs 2813 Whoever conceals their sins does
not prosper,    
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but the one who confesses and renounces them
finds mercy.
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Daniel 918We do not make requests of you
because we are righteous, but because of your
great mercy. 
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Isaiah 3018 Yet the Lord longs to be gracious
to you     he rises to show you compassion
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19  How gracious he will be when you cry for
help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.
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Jeremiah 333 Call to me and I will answer you
and tell you great and unsearchable things you do
not know.
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