Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 1:13

13 Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the kings meat: and as thou seest deal with thy servants .

By these words Daniel secures Melzar against fear, and danger only by ten days tryal, which was a fair and reasonable proffer which the servants of God must carefully do when they have good offices done them by the Servants of Princes, as Elijah was careful of good Obadiah, 1 Kings 18.11, 12. to secure him from death.