Dan 1:4, 2:4 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 4. Children ] yeladim, youths, young men ; and so the word should be rendered throughout this book. Skilled in all wisdom ] Rather, persons capable of every kind of literary accomplishment, that they might be put under proper instruction. And as children of the blood and of the nobles mere most likely, from the care usually taken of their initiatory education, to profit most by the elaborate instruction here designed, the master of the eunuchs, the king's chamberlain, was commanded to choose the youths in question out of such.

‏ Daniel 1:4

Verse 4. Children] yeladim, youths, young men; and so the word should be rendered throughout this book.

Skilled in all wisdom] Rather, persons capable of every kind of literary accomplishment, that they might be put under proper instruction. And as children of the blood and of the nobles mere most likely, from the care usually taken of their initiatory education, to profit most by the elaborate instruction here designed, the master of the eunuchs, the king's chamberlain, was commanded to choose the youths in question out of such.

‏ Daniel 2:4

Verse 4. Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriac]

aramith, the language of Aram or Syria. What has been generally called the Chaldee.

O king, live for ever] Malca leolmin cheyi. With these words the Chaldee part of Daniel commences; and continues to the end of the seventh chapter. These kinds of compliments are still in use in the East Indies. A superior gives a blessing to an inferior by saying to him, when the latter is in the act of doing him reverence, "Long life to thee." A poor man, going into the presence of a king to solicit a favour, uses the same kind of address: O father, thou art the support of the destitute; mayest thou live to old age!-WARD'S Customs.