16. Thus the guard continued to take away the portion of their food and the wine that they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.
17. As for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in every branch of learning and wisdom. And Daniel had understanding in all kinds of visions and dreams.
18. Now at the end of the days that the king had set for them to be brought in, the master of the officials brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
19. The king spoke with them, and, among them all, none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they served before the king.
20. In all matters of wisdom and understanding which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
21. Daniel continued even to the first year of King Cyrus.