PART ONE God’s Man in the King’s Court (1:1–21) Daniel 1:1–2 1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia and put in the treasure house of his god. The year was 605 B.C. In the Middle East the Assyrian Empire was in decline; a half-dozen
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