Daniel 1

Daniel 1:2

Which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god: and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.

Which he carried into the land of Chaldea, to the temple of his false god; not so much for the ordinary use of his priests as to be laid up for monuments in the treasure house that pertained to his idol god, even Bel, the god of the Babylonians, Assyrians, and Persians.

Daniel 1:4

And such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace.

Such as might be fit, both for birth and person and parts, to be attendants upon the king’s person.

Daniel 1:8

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs, that he might not defile himself.

But Daniel, finding by the change of their names that there was no other meant but a change of their religion and manners, resolved to hold his own holy courses; and determined in himself, not to eat of those Babylonian dishes, that were prepared for him by the prince of the eunuchs: which he could not possibly do, without much danger of defilement; since, both their meat and manner of dressing, had in them much contrariety to the law of God; therefore he requested the prince of the eunuchs, that he might enjoy the liberty of his conscience, and might not be pressed to the use of a prohibited diet.

Daniel 1:19

Therefore stood they before the king.

They were specially appointed, therefore, to wait upon the king’s person.