Daniel 1:20

And in all matters of wisdom and understanding -Margin, “of.” The Hebrew is, “Everything of wisdom of understanding.” The Greek, “In all things of wisdom “and” knowledge.” The meaning is, in everything which required peculiar wisdom to understand and explain it. The points submitted were such as would appropriately come before the minds of the sages and magicians who were employed as counselors at court. He found them ten times better -Better counselors, better informed. Hebrew, “ten “hands” above the magicians;” that is, ten “times,” or “many” times. In this sense the word “ten” is used inGenesis 31:7,Genesis 31:41;Numbers 14:22;Nehemiah 4:12;Job 19:3. They greatly surpassed them.