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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Daniel 1:17 - 1:17
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God gave them knowledge - (Exo 31:2, Exo 31:3; 1Ki 3:12; Job 32:8; Jam 1:5, Jam 1:17).
Daniel had understanding in ... dreams - God thus made one of the despised covenant-people eclipse the Chaldean sages in the very science on which they most prided themselves. So Joseph in the court of Pharaoh (Gen 40:5; Gen 41:1-8). Daniel, in these praises of his own “understanding,” speaks not through vanity, but by the direction of God, as one transported out of himself. See my Introduction, “Contents of the Book.”