Conclusion of Four Boys in Babylon

So Daniel goes to the guardian that Ash'pe-naz has put in charge of him and his three friends.  'Please put us to the test for 10 days,' he says.  'Give us some vegetables to eat and water to drink.  Then compare us with the other young men who eating the king's food, and see who looks better.'

The guardian agrees to do this. And when the 10 days are up, Daniel and his three friends look healthier than all the other young men.  So the guardian lets them continue to eat vegetables instead of what the king provides.

At the end of three years all the young men are taken to Neb-u-chad-nez'zar.  After talking to them all the king finds Daniel and his three friends to be the smartest ones.  So he keeps them to help him in the palace. And whenever the king asks Daniel, Sha'drach, Me'shach, and A-bed'ne-go  questions or gives them hard problems, they know 10 times as much as any of his priests or wise men.

Note: I wish they would tell the whole thing here about Daniel and his friends.  Maybe  you need to read the whole book of Daniel to understand everything.  Because Daniel and his friends are put through a terrible ordeal, only to come out of it, in great shape. 


Daniel 1:1-21

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