Treasury of Scripture
was preferred.
Proverbs 22:29 See you a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
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Daniel 5:12,14 For as much as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of hard sentences...
Daniel 9:23 At the beginning of your supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to show you; for you are greatly beloved...
Genesis 41:38-41 And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is...
Nehemiah 7:2 That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man...
Proverbs 3:3,4 Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them on the table of your heart...
Proverbs 17:27 He that has knowledge spares his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Ecclesiastes 2:13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
thought. Intended to make him [grand vizier] or [emirul umra]. Daniel had now been employed full sixty-five years as prime minister under the kings of Babylon; and was justly entitled, from his acknowledged wisdom, to this preference.