Bible Person
Male · 1 cross reference
Ashpenaz is the chief official over the court youths in Babylon who receives Daniel and his companions. He belongs to the imperial setting in which Judean exiles are formed, tested, and displayed. First appears in Dan 1:3.1
AI summary: Ashpenaz matters because his single cross reference places him at the threshold of Daniel's Babylonian story, where imperial assimilation begins and faithful distinction must first be negotiated. The entry helps frame the tension between court power and covenant identity. Taken together, the material presents Ashpenaz as the official overseeing the first stage of Daniel's exile experience.1
Central Figure
Ashpenaz
The master of the eunuchs of Nebuchadnezzar (Dan.
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.