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Nebuchadnezzar’s devilish temptation was first to seduce the four brilliant young descendants of God’s defeated elect, Daniel and his three companions, to be defiled by partaking of his unclean food, food offered to idols. The king’s choice provision was defiling, unclean, for it had been offered to Nebuchadnezzar’s gods. For Daniel and his companions to eat that food would have been to take in the defilement, to take in the idols, and thus to become one with Satan (cf.1 Cor. 10:19-21). In principle, this was a temptation to eat the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which joins man to Satan (cf.Gen. 3:1-6). When Daniel and his companions refused to eat Nebuchadnezzar’s unclean food and chose instead to eat vegetables (vv. 8-16), in principle they rejected the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and took the tree of life, which caused them to be one with God (cf.Gen. 2:9,16-17).