Daniel 1:6
New International Version
Among those who were chosen were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.

New Living Translation
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were four of the young men chosen, all from the tribe of Judah.

English Standard Version
Among these were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah of the tribe of Judah.

Berean Standard Bible
Among these young men were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

King James Bible
Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

New King James Version
Now from among those of the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

New American Standard Bible
Now among them from the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

NASB 1995
Now among them from the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.

NASB 1977
Now among them from the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now among them from the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Amplified Bible
Among them from the sons of Judah were: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Christian Standard Bible
Among them, from the Judahites, were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Among them, from the descendants of Judah, were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

American Standard Version
Now among these were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And there were among them some sons of Yehuda: Daniel and KhananYah and MishEil and Azarayah

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Now these were among them of the children of Juda, Daniel, and Ananias, and Azarias, and Misael.

Contemporary English Version
Four of the young Jews chosen were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, all from the tribe of Judah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now there were among them of the children of Juda, Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias.

English Revised Version
Now among these were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Among these young men were some Judeans: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Good News Translation
Among those chosen were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, all of whom were from the tribe of Judah.

International Standard Version
Included among the people of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Now among these were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Literal Standard Version
And there are among them out of the sons of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

Majority Standard Bible
Among these young men were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

New American Bible
Among these were Judeans, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

NET Bible
As it turned out, among these young men were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

New Revised Standard Version
Among them were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, from the tribe of Judah.

New Heart English Bible
Now among these were, of the people of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

World English Bible
Now among these of the children of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Young's Literal Translation
And there are among them out of the sons of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Daniel Removed to Babylon
5The king assigned them daily provisions of the royal food and wine. They were to be trained for three years, after which they were to enter the king’s service. 6Among these young men were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. 7The chief official gave them new names: To Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.…

Cross References
Matthew 24:15
So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination of desolation,' described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),

Ezekiel 14:14
then even if these three men--Noah, Daniel, and Job--were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 14:20
then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.

Ezekiel 28:3
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!

Daniel 1:19
And the king spoke with them, and among all the young men he found no one equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they entered the king's service.

Daniel 2:17
Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

Daniel 2:25
Arioch hastily brought Daniel before the king and said to him, "I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who will tell the king the interpretation."


Treasury of Scripture

Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

Daniel.

Daniel 2:17
Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:

Ezekiel 14:14,20
Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD…

Ezekiel 28:3
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

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1. Jehoiakim's captivity.
3. Ashpenaz takes Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
8. They refusing the king's portion do prosper with pulse and water.
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(6) Now among these . . .--Four persons only are mentioned here, because the narrative of the book is only concerned with four. Daniel calls our attention to the fact that the very four whom Providence had endowed with the greatest natural gifts were those by whose constancy and example the king was converted. The names of these four were subsequently changed, with the view of showing that they had become nationalised Chaldee subjects. (Comp. 2Kings 23:34; 2Kings 24:17.) The name Belteshazzar must be carefully distinguished from Belshazzar. It is said to mean, protect his life (balatsu-usur). Daniel appears, if this be the true meaning of the name, to have endeared himself at a very early period to Ashpenaz. (See Daniel 4:18.) Abed-nego is apparently Servant of Nebo, the b and g having been designedly interchanged, on account of Azariah's unwillingness to bear a heathen name. Shadrach and Meshach have not as yet been explained, but probably the clue to their interpretation is to be found in the last syllable, ach, which occurs also in Merodach and Arioch.

Verse 6. - Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. The versions present no difficulty here, only the Septuagint adds a clause to bring this verse into harm(my with ver. 3: the Septuagint rendering is, "And there were of the race of the sons of Israel that came from Judaea, Daniel, Ananias, Mishael, and Azarias." That they were of "the children of Judah" seems to exclude the possibility of these four belonging to any other tribe, all the more that the whole children of Israel are spoken of in the third verse. The version which we find in the Septuagint leaves the matter tree. At the same time, the addition is one that is so naturally suggested by the third verse, that we cannot claim that the reading of the Septuagint is the more probable. The names of the four companions all occur elsewhere, and, as is usual with Hebrew names, all are significant. Daniel means either "Judge of God" or "God my Judge." As Hebrew grammar is now, the latter is the meaning; but there was an older form of the construct state, which appears in proper names like "Gabriel," which makes it probable that "Judge of God" or "Divine Judge" is the meaning intended to be conveyed. This meaning is in,plied in the story of Susanna and the eiders. David's son by Abigail the Carmelitess is called Daniel in 1 Chronicles 3:1. In the case of the son of David, the name would probably indicate the confidence in God which his father felt, rather than any description of the son. In Ezra 8:2 a Daniel is mentioned who seems to be a son of Ithamar. We say "seems to be," because it is evident that there is an omission somewhere of a name; if the omission has taken place before m'bne Phinhas, then Daniel becomes the representative of the sons of David, and Hattush the representative of the sons of Pabath. In Nehemiah 10:6 in the number of the priests who sealed the covenant, is a "Daniel" named, who may be the same as the preceding. In the LXX. version of the apocryphal additions to Daniel, the prophet is identified with the priest. The first verse in the story of Bel and the Dragon is, "There was a certain man, a priest, whose name was Daniel, the son of Abal, the familiar friend of the King of Babylon." There is nothing to make it certain, it we do not take the phrase here in its absolute sense, that Daniel did not belong to the family of Aaron; if we take the phrase in its restricted sense, then the balance of probability is that he was a member of the Davidic family. Hananiah (Hananyah; Greek, Ἀνανίας: the Hebrew form, as in the case of other names with the same termination, is sometimes lengthened to Hananyahu). The name means "The Lord Jehovah is gracious." This name is one of the most common in the Bible. Sometimes it is reversed, and becomes Jehohanan or Johanan, and hence "John." The earliest is the head of the sixteenth of the twenty-four courses into which David divided the Hemanites (2 Chronicles 25:4). In the reign of Uzziah there appears one as a chief captain (2 Chronicles 26:11). In Jeremiah there are three; most prominent, however, is the false prophet who declared that Jeconiah and all his fellow-captives would be brought back in the space of two years (Jeremiah 28:15). One of the ancestors of our Lord, called in Luke (Luke 3:27) Joanna, the son of Rhess, grandson of Zerubbabel, is called in 1 Chronicles 3:19 Hananiah, and reckoned a son of Zerubbabel. In the Book of Nehemiah there are several persons spoken of as bearing this name, not impossibly as many as six. In New Testament times it was still common: Ananias the husband of Sapphira (Acts 5:1); the devout Jew of Damascus, sent to Paul (Acts 9:10); the high priest in the time of Paul (Acts 23:2). Unlike Hananiah, Mishael is one of the rarer names It occurs as the name of one of the sons of Uzziel, the uncle of Moses and Aaron (Exodus 6:22; Leviticus 10:4), and again as one who stood at Ezra's left hand when he read the Law (Nehemiah 8:4). There is some question as to the meaning of the name. Two interpretations have been suggested; the simplest and most direct is, "Who is what God is;" the other is, "Who is like God." The objection to the first is that the contracted relative is employed, which does not elsewhere appear in this book. This, however, is not insuperable, as the contracted form of the relative was in common use in the northern kingdom, and might, therefore, appear in a name; the objection to the second is that a letter is omitted, but such omissions continually occur. Hitzig refers to ימים, from יום, as a case in point. Azariah, "Jehovah is Helper," is, like Hananiah, a very common name throughout Jewish history It is the name by which Uzziah is called in 2 Kings 14:21: 15:1, 7, 8, 17 (called Uzziah in vers. 13, 30, as also in 2 Chronicles 27.) It is the name of four high priests:

(1) one (1 Chronicles 6:10)during the reign of Solomon, the grandson of Zadok;

(2) the high priest during the reign of Jehoshaphat (1 Chronicles 6:11);

(3) high priest during the reign of his namesake Azariah or Uzziah King of Judah (2 Chronicles 26:17-20); . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Among these [young men]
בָהֶ֖ם (ḇā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

were some
וַיְהִ֥י (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

[from]
מִבְּנֵ֣י (mib·bə·nê)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

Judah:
יְהוּדָ֑ה (yə·hū·ḏāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3063: Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites

Daniel,
דָּנִיֵּ֣אל (dā·nî·yêl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1840: Daniel -- 'God is my judge', the name of several Israelites

Hananiah,
חֲנַנְיָ֔ה (ḥă·nan·yāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2608: Hananiah -- 'Yah has been gracious', the name of a number of Israelites

Mishael,
מִֽישָׁאֵ֖ל (mî·šā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4332: Mishael -- 'Who is what God is?' three Israelites

and Azariah.
וַעֲזַרְיָֽה׃ (wa·‘ă·zar·yāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5838: Azariah -- 'Yah has helped', the name of a number of Israelites


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