there was a continuall diet given him of the king] He had a cōstant set allowance in the court. Which kind usage some ascribe to his voluntarie rendring of himself to Nebuchadnezzar, 2 Kings 24:12. Yet, it seemeth, he found no such favour with him: and what he then did, being but young, might be done rather by his mothers direction. But thus God made good, what the Psalmist acknowledgeth, by giving him, and some other of his people, favour in the eyes of those, with whom they were captives, Chap. 15. 11. Daniel 1:9. & 2. 48, 49. & 3. 30. & 6. 2, 28. Nehem. 1. 12. and 2. 8. every day a portion] Heb. the matter (or, word, as Chap. 38. 27.) of the day in his day. Exodus 5:13.