Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king\u2019s service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility\u2014 young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king\u2019s palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians. The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king\u2019s table. They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the king\u2019s service. Daniel 1:3-5 (ESV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king\u2019s service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility\u2014 young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king\u2019s palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians. The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king\u2019s table. They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the king\u2019s service. Daniel 1:3-5 (ESV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[342,343,319,118,225],"university":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-21-day-fast","tag-cultural-revolution","tag-devotional","tag-fasting","tag-layout_color_line_orange"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/2645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"university","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}