Bible Verses About School

however, the chief officer said to Dani'el, "I'm afraid of my lord the king. After all, he has given you an allowance of food and drink; so if he were to see you boys looking worse than the others your age, you would be putting my own head in danger from the king."

Then Dani'el said to the guard whom the chief officer had put in charge of Dani'el, Hananyah, Misha'el and 'Azaryah,

"Please! Try an experiment on your servants - for ten days have them give us only vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Then see how we look, and compare us with how the boys who eat the king's food look; and deal with your servants according to what you see."

He agreed to do what they had asked and gave them a ten-day test.

At the end of ten days they looked better and more robust than all the boys who were eating the king's food.

So the guard took away their food and the wine they were supposed to drink, and gave them vegetables.

To these four boys God had given knowledge and skill in every aspect of learning and wisdom; moreover, Dani'el could understand all kinds of visions and dreams.

When the time the king had set for them to be presented came, the chief officer presented them to N'vukhadnetzar;

and when the king spoke with them, none was found among all of them to compare with Dani'el, Hananyah, Misha'el and 'Azaryah. So they entered the king's service;

and in all matters requiring wisdom and understanding, whenever the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and exorcists in his entire kingdom.

So Dani'el remained there until the first year of King Koresh.

But one of the members of the Sanhedrin rose to his feet, a Parush named Gamli’el, a teacher of the Torah highly respected by all the people. He ordered the men put outside for a little while

But some began hardening themselves and refusing to listen; and when these started defaming the Way before the whole synagogue, Sha’ul withdrew, took the talmidim with him, and commenced holding daily dialogues in Tyrannus’s yeshivah.

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city and trained at the feet of Gamli’el in every detail of the Torah of our forefathers. I was a zealot for God, as all of you are today.

Accordingly, the Torah functioned as a custodian until the Messiah came, so that we might be declared righteous on the ground of trusting and being faithful.

But now that the time for this trusting faithfulness has come, we are no longer under a custodian.