Daniel 1:12
1:12 “Please test your servants for ten days by providing us with some vegetables to eat and water to drink.
Daniel 1:16
1:16 So the warden removed the delicacies and the wine
from their diet
and gave them a diet of vegetables instead.
Daniel 5:2
5:2 While under the influence
of the wine, Belshazzar issued an order to bring in the gold and silver vessels – the ones that Nebuchadnezzar his father
had confiscated
from the temple in Jerusalem
– so that the king and his nobles, together with his wives and his concubines, could drink from them.
Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar Sees Mysterious Handwriting on a Wall
5:1 King Belshazzar prepared a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in front of them all.
Daniel 1:10
1:10 But he
responded to Daniel, “I fear my master the king. He is the one who has decided
your food and drink. What would happen if he saw that you looked malnourished in comparison to the other young men your age?
If that happened,
you would endanger my life
with the king!”
Daniel 5:23
5:23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone – gods
that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control
your very breath and all your ways!
Daniel 1:8
1:8 But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the royal delicacies or the royal wine. He therefore asked the overseer of the court officials for permission not to defile himself.
Daniel 1:5
1:5 So the king assigned them a daily ration
from his royal delicacies
and from the wine he himself drank. They were to be trained
for the next three years. At the end of that time they were to enter the king’s service.