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Chaldeans, Chaldees

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: C By: James P. Boyd

Daniel 1:4; 5:15; 9:1

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The people of that country having Babylon for its capital (Dan. 1:4; 5:15; 9:1⁴Children in whom was no blemish, but well favored, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans. (Daniel 1:4)
¹⁵And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not show the interpretation of the thing: (Daniel 5:15)
¹In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; (Daniel 9:1)).

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