When Daniel was a young man, the army of Nebuchadnezzar came into Jerusalem, took him and many others captive and carried them back to Babylon. There Daniel was placed in the king’s court. If Nebuchadnezzar could make Babylonians out of Daniel and his friends, they would be useful to him in controlling the other captives from Jerusalem. But Nebuchadnezzar soon found that these young men would not be easily ‘Babylonianized’. Even though they were in Babylon,
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