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Daniel 1:9
Now God had granted Daniel favor and compassion from the chief official,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator reports that God intervened to secure Daniel’s request with the Babylonian court official, occurring immediately after Daniel’s vow to avoid defilement (Daniel 1:8) and before the official voices his fear of the king’s wrath (Daniel 1:10).
The words — The passage centers on חֶסֶד (chesed) as steadfast favor or loyal kindness, and רַחֲמִים (rachamim) as deep compassion, defining the precise quality of the divine grant.
The thread — This motif of God granting favor to the displaced runs through Genesis 39:21 with Joseph in the prison, Psalm 106:46 with captives in exile, and 1 Kings 8:50 where God is petitioned to show mercy to His people in foreign lands.
Why it lands — The text requires the reader to recognize that divine initiative precedes and enables human compliance, demanding attention to God’s active sovereignty in secular institutions rather than attributing outcomes to political maneuvering alone.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.
Cross-references
- Genesis 39:21 the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
- Psalms 106:46 He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.
- 1 Kings 8:50 May You forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all the transgressions they have committed against You, and may You grant them compassion in the eyes of their captors to show them mercy.
- Proverbs 16:7 When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him.
- Nehemiah 2:4 “What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven
- Acts 7:10 and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.
- Ezra 7:27 Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,
- Nehemiah 1:11 O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)
- Psalms 4:3 Know that the LORD has set apart the godly for Himself; the LORD hears when I call to Him.
- Genesis 32:28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”