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What evidence is there from scripture for why Daniel did not eat the King's food?
There are two primary, though related reasons for why Daniel would not eat the king's food and drink.
Daniel was an Israelite (Dan 1:3) of the tribe of Judah (Dan 1:6). He would be bound by the ...
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What are common explanations for the angel being delayed for 21 days in Daniel 10:13?
The two most common explanations for the delay are:
To make an accommodation to the kingdom or guardian of Persia
To resist an evil intended by or suggested to the rulers of Persia
Accommodation to ...
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Who first associated the fourth beast of Daniel 7 with the Roman Empire?
Several commentators before Jerome make this connection. We'll mention three,1 starting with Cyril of Jerusalem (313–386), who indicates that he is not the originator of this interpretation:
The ...
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What's the significance of this image for Jehovah's Witnesses?
This looks very much like a modern portrayal of the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, as explained by the prophet Daniel in Daniel 2:
31 “You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and ...
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Where is the dust of the earth?
You're asking the wrong question. This isn't a place; it is a state.
"Sleep" is used hundreds of times throughout the Old and New Testaments as a euphemism or metaphor for death. Likewise, the theme ...
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Can we exalt ourselves above God?
The highlighted expression is explained in the next clause; "He shall speak marvellous things against the God of Gods". He is exalting himself above God in his own mind and in his ...
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What evidence is there from scripture for why Daniel did not eat the King's food?
Daniel 1:3-5 explains how some of the young men from Judah’s royal family and the nobility were taken captive and were to be trained for three years then they would enter into the service of King ...
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Do the measurements of the Ark have any important significance?
One feature of the dimensions of the ark is that it can contain a human body (in the foetal position as many were buried prior to mechanical digging).
The last words of the book of Genesis contain the ...
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Why does church tradition teach that one third of the angels fell with Lucifer when no verse supports that
@BYE points in the right direction. Some of the prophecies in Revelation look backwards to events that occurred before John lived, because the contest between Satan and God goes back to the beginning ...
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From the Preterist (fulfilled eschatology) perspective, who was "the prince that shall come" of Dan. 9:26?
According to preterist interpreter Philip Mauro, the only answer is Titus.
WHO IS "THE PRINCE THAT SHALL COME"?
At this point we are confronted with a question which very seriously affects the ...
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According to Seventh Day Advent theology when does the 2300 evenings and mornings in Daniel 8:13-14 begin?
According to SDA theology, 457 B.C. is the beginning of the 70 weeks prophecy. The prophecy of Daniel 9:25 was fulfilled in 457 B.C. when Artaxerxes authorized Ezra through a royal decree to go to ...
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What was the hour of the Annunciation?
What was the hour of the Annunciation?
There is nothing in Holy Scriptures that will be of any help here. But perhaps we could start with Dom Guéranger and tradition:
A tradition, which has come ...
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Who was Darius the Mede?
One theory I have encountered is that Cyrus the Great is Darius the Mede and that Daniel is alluding to Cyrus's Median ancestry in part because Jeremiah 51:11,28 and Isaiah 13:17 suggest the Medes ...
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Why do some Christians interpret Daniel's 1260 day prophecy as days and not years?
Why do some Christians interpret Daniel's 1260 day prophecy as days and not years?
Whether a day is interpreted as a literal day or as a year depends on the context. Interpreters looked at the 70 ...
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Did scholars doubt Belshazzar's existence before 1854?
Though generally we should all be all in favour of going back to the original documents the English google translation (of the original German) to which your question provides a link is not of good ...
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What are common explanations for the angel being delayed for 21 days in Daniel 10:13?
Apart from scholars involved in higher criticism, Christian commentators tend to fall into two broad groups in understanding the reason for the angel's delay. However, there is broad agreement that ...
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Who was Darius the Mede?
Prior to Cyrus the Great, a Persian, the Medians were overlords of the Persians and other tribes in what is now western Iran. Cyrus overthrew the Median king, Astyages, and founded the Achaemenid ...
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Is the “Dome of the Rock” the “Abomination of Desolation” spoken of by the prophet Daniel?
Yes I think so. From the Jewish Tanach:-
Dan 12:11 “And from the time the daily sacrifice was removed and the silent abomination placed, is one thousand, two hundred, and ninety"
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Who was Darius the Mede?
Dr. Steven Anderson wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on Darius the Mede. His conclusion that Darius the Mede is Cyaxares II mainly derived from Xenophon’s book Cyropaedia. Xenophon was a student of ...
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Why do we use the Hebrew name for Daniel, but Persian names for his companions?
Since your question is rather general, I'm going to offer a suggestion - a pretty plausible one, but a suggestion. It's probably because they are central to one famous story in the book of Daniel - ...
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Was the 1914 prophecy (derived from the book of Daniel) ever mentioned in any newspapers before World War I?
In 1843, a British tract published 1917 as a possible date for the end of the Gentile Times.
In 1844, a British clergyman, E. B. Elliott, drew attention to 1914 as a possible date for the end of the “...
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Where did the rich young ruler hear of eternal life?
The Pharisees were the dominant religious sect of Judaism in Jesus's time. They taught strict adherence to the Law and all of the other laws added to it. They also taught the resurrection of the dead. ...
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Do the measurements of the Ark have any important significance?
The golden ratio is (1+\sqrt(5))/2 = 1.618... This ratio appears in all sorts of forms in nature. In the spiral of a sea shell. in the number of leaves or petals in one "round" of a plant....
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Who was Darius the Mede?
From what I can tell in other answers, it is eluded to that Daniel is speaking to King Darius I. I would like to bring some evidence that the Book of Daniel was written around 600 BC (Dr. Bryan S. ...
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What happened to Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom during his punishment
Daniel 4:29-33 is the culmination of writings, beginning with a Babylonian history, a series of Dead Sea Scroll fragments known as pseudo-Daniel and then the biblical book of Daniel.
M. H. Henze (The ...
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Using the Hebrew calendar is there a way to determine when the seventy seven's starts and ends?
Further to your first question, “Is there a way to determine?” I will now attempt an answer to your second question, “Will it end on a jubilee year, and how will that date translate to our current ...
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What's the significance of this image for Jehovah's Witnesses?
I hope this sheds even more light on this subject:
This is from the online JW library:
22. How does the dream image help us to see that we are deep in the time of the end?
22 Careful study proves ...
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Who first associated the fourth beast of Daniel 7 with the Roman Empire?
A massively documented history of the interpretation is given in the online article by Gerhard Pfandl, 'Interpretations of the Kingdom of God in Daniel 2:44'. According to it, Josephus in Antiquities ...
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