Dan 1:8

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purposed.

Ruth 1:17; Ruth 1:18; 1Kgs 5:5; Ps 119:106; Ps 119:115; Acts 11:23; 1Cor 7:37; 2Cor 9:7

defile.

Heathen nations not only ate unclean beasts, which were forbidden by Jewish law, but even the clean animals that were eaten were first offered as victims to their gods, and part of the wine was poured out as a libation on their altars.

Hence Athens calls the beasts served up at the tables of the Persian kings, [hieria,] victims. Daniel was therefore resolved not to defile himself with their viands; yet he did not rudely refuse what was intended as a kindness, but mildly and modestly requested the proper officers to indulge him in this respect.

Lev 11:45-47; Deut 32:38; Ps 106:28; Ps 141:4; Ezek 4:13; Ezek 4:14; Hos 9:3; Hos 9:4

Acts 10:14-16; Rom 14:15-17; 1Cor 8:7-10; 1Cor 10:18-21; 1Cor 10:28-31