Nebuchadnezzar’s First Expedition to Jerusalem (1:1–2) In the third Year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god. The drums of war were beating in the Middle East. Egypt and Babylon, the two superpowers
Daniel 1:1–2