Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Daniel kept his conscience clean, refusing the king's meat and wine, though his name was changed by his captors. God gave him favour with the official, and his steadfast principle, not sullenness, but genuine scruple, showed that a tractable spirit and firm religion are not opposed but joined together.
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Commenting on Daniel 1:8-16
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days, Here Daniel manifestly includes his companions, and makes his request for himself and them; desiring that they might be tried ten days with different sort of food and drink, and see whether any alteration would be made in them for the worse; which was a proper time for such a trial; for in that time it might...
pulse--The Hebrew expresses any vegetable grown from seeds, that is, vegetable food in general [GESENIUS].