First, a morality crisis arose. And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king’s meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king. (v. 5) That was very generous of the king. Most conquering kings would have beheaded or banished such captives, sending them off, perhaps, to concentration camps to be exploited, tormented, and brutally slain. That Nebuchadnezzar was capable of great cruelty