Bel was the chief idol of the Chaldeans, ( Isaiah 46:1 ), and Daniel was named according to him, as Nebuchadnezzar himself says, ( Daniel 4:8 ) and differs but in one letter from the name of a successor of his, Belshazzar, ( Daniel 5:1 ), hence Daniel is thought by Broughton, and others, to be the Belesis of Diolorus Siculus: or it may be he had this name given him from "beltis" or "baaltis" F21, a queen and goddess of the Babylonians, and may be compounded of that and "azer": and to Hananiah of Shadrach Which signifies "Bel hath hid and treasured" or Bel's treasurer, or the keeper of his treasures see ( Daniel 1:2 ). This prince of the eunuchs seems to be the same with the master of the eunuchs, Ashpenaz, before mentioned, so Jacchiades but some take him to be another person: what he did in changing the names of these four Hebrew youths was not his own idea and by his own authority, but by the order of the king ( Daniel 5:12 ) : for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar Other names, Chaldee names, according to the names of the gods of that country, for honour and glory, as Saadiah observes which was done either to make them more acceptable to the court and courtiers of the king of Babylon and to show that they were his servants, and naturalized subjects and chiefly to cause them to forget the names their fathers gave them, and out of hatred to them, having all of them in them the names of the true God, El or Jah and, most of all, that they might forget the God of their fathers, whose names they bore.
Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names
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