Daniel 1:12
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Prove your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageBabylon, in the land of Shinar (southern Mesopotamia, broadly Chaldea in modern Iraq), was the empire that had taken Judeans from Jerusalem into exile. Daniel’s proposed diet test occurs within this foreign royal court, highlighting his faithful refusal to compromise covenantal allegiance while serving there.
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Daniel 1:12 mentions Babylon, Chaldea, Jerusalem and Shinar.
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