Third year of King Jehoiakim of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, comes to Jerusalem and lays siege to it. He carries some of the things from God’s house back to Babylon and puts them in his own god’s treasury.
The book of Daniel
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Exiles at the court of Babylon.
Stories of Daniel and his three friends at the courts of Babylon and Persia, then Daniel’s own visions in his own words. Part of the book (from the middle of chapter 2 to the end of chapter 7) is written in Aramaic, the language of the empire; the rest is in Hebrew.
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The king wants young men from Israel’s royal family and nobility. Good-looking, sharp, quick to learn. Three years learning the language and the books of the Babylonians, with food and wine from the king’s own table. Then into the king’s service.
Replying to @nebuchadnezzar
God gave the four of them knowledge and understanding of every kind of learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of every kind.
Replying to @nebuchadnezzar
The king throws himself face down in front of Daniel. Then he makes him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and head of all its wise men, with a lot of gifts. At Daniel’s request, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego get jobs running the province.
Replying to @astrologer.dura
The king is furious. He has the three of them brought in and gives them one more chance. When the music plays, bow down. If not, the furnace. And then what god will rescue you from my hands?
Replying to @nebuchadnezzar
And he promotes them in the province of Babylon.
Replying to @nebuchadnezzar
He was still saying it when a voice came from heaven: the kingdom has been taken from you. That very hour he was driven away from people. He ate grass like cattle, and was soaked with dew, until his hair grew like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.
They dress Daniel in purple anyway, put the gold chain round his neck and proclaim him third in the kingdom. That same night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, is killed. Darius the Mede takes the kingdom. He’s sixty-two.
Replying to @darius.the.mede
Daniel stands out so much that the king is planning to put him over the whole kingdom.
Replying to @administrators.satraps
King Darius signs it.
Daniel knows it’s been signed. He goes home and upstairs, to the room with its windows open towards Jerusalem. And three times a day he gets down on his knees, prays and gives thanks to his God. Just as he always has.
Replying to @administrators.satraps
The king is deeply upset. He sets his mind on saving Daniel, and works at it until the sun goes down.
So Daniel is thrown into the lions’ den. A stone is rolled over the mouth of it, and the king seals it with his own ring and his nobles’ rings, so nothing can be changed for Daniel.
What was behind the decree. The administrators and satraps had been looking for anything to charge Daniel with in his work for the kingdom, and found nothing. No corruption. No negligence. He was that trustworthy. So they decided the only way to get him was through the law of his God.
The king's administrators and satraps@administrators.satrapsYour Majesty, kindly note the following proposal, agreed by all the royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers and governors. For thirty days, anyone who prays to any god or human being except you goes into the lions’ den. Once signed, under the law of the Medes and Persians, it cannot be changed.Replying to @darius.the.mede
So Daniel did well in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Then a long, detailed account of kings to come. Kings of Persia, a mighty king whose kingdom is broken up to the four winds, and generations of war between the king of the North and the king of the South.
Catching up? Babylon. King Belshazzar is throwing a feast for a thousand of his nobles, and they’re drinking out of the gold cups his father Nebuchadnezzar took from God’s temple in Jerusalem. Then a human hand appears and writes on the palace wall.
A guest at Belshazzar's feast@guest.at.the.feast · The palace, BabylonOkay, what. Fingers. A human hand, writing on the plaster wall by the lampstand. The king’s watching it. He’s gone white. His legs have given way and his knees are knocking together.That same night, Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, is killed.
Replying to @lions.den
Because he trusted his God.
So Daniel did well in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.