DANIEL 1: 6-7 : Now from among those of the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael,and Azariah. To them the chief of the eunuchs gave names: he gave Daniel the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael Meshach; and to Azariah, Abed-Nego. Some people assume new names to disguise...
DANIEL 1:3-4 : Then the king instructed Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, to bring some of the children of Israel and some of the king descendants and some of the nobles, young men in whom there was no blemish, but good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick...
DANIEL 1: 1-2 : In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babyloncame to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some ofthe articles of the house of God, which he carried into the...
ISAIAH 66:13: As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. A mother said that her little girl, who was terrified of the dark, slept at night in a crib beside her bed. Often the mother had been wakened during the...
ISAIAH 65:24: It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear. Dr. Helen Roseveare, a missionary to Africa, told about a mother who died at the mission station after giving birth to a premature baby. An incubator was...
ISAIAH 59:2: But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. Great Britain’s King George V was to give the opening address at a special disarmament conference with the speech relayed by radio to the...
ISAIAH 55:8-9: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” A young boy at the dinner table asked, “Dad,...
ISAIAH 55:1-2: Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money; come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen...
ISAIAH 53:3-4: He is despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him...
ISAIAH 49:15-16: Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, yet I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are continually before Me. I can empathize with...