²The ^aLord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the ^bvessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of ^cShinar, to the house of his ¹god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his ^dgod.

³Then the king ¹ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his ²officials, to bring in some of the sons of Israel, including some of the ³royal ^afamily and of the nobles,

⁴youths in whom was ^ano defect, who were good-looking, showing ^bintelligence in every branch of wisdom, endowed with understanding and discerning knowledge, and who had ability for ¹serving in the king’s ²court; and he ordered him to teach them the ³literature and ^clanguage of the ^dChaldeans.

⁵The king appointed for them a daily ration from the ^aking’s choice food and from the wine which he drank, and appointed that they should be ¹educated three years, at the end of which they were to ²^benter the king’s personal service.

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Footnotes

1Or gods
1Or said to
2Or eunuchs, and so throughout the ch
3Lit seed of the
1Lit standing
2Lit palace
3Or writing
1Or reared
2Lit stand before the king

Cross references

a 2 Kin 24:1; 2 Chr 36:5, 6
b Jer 25:1; 52:12, 28–30
a Is 42:24; Dan 2:37, 38
b 2 Chr 36:7; Jer 27:19, 20; Dan 5:2
c Gen 10:10; 11:2; Is 11:11; Zech 5:11
d Jer 50:2; 51:44
a 2 Kin 24:15; Is 39:7
a 2 Sam 14:25
b Dan 1:17
c Is 36:11; Jer 5:15; Dan 2:4
d Dan 2:2, 4, 5, 10; 3:8; 4:7; 5:7, 11, 30; 9:1
a Dan 1:8
b 1 Sam 16:22; Dan 1:19