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Teaching from Daniel can easily veer in two equally unhelpful directions: moralism and speculative intrigue. Ronald Pierce steers us away from the distractions and moves us toward the main point of Daniel: God’s sovereign control over people, rulers, and history, even while his people endure suffering. God does not abandon his faithful servants. He holds the wicked accountable, and his kingdom...

three friends throughout chapter 3. The repetition of the king’s twofold demand (cf. 2:5) sets this text in parallel with the king’s exchange with the failed sages (2:8–11). What they cannot do, Daniel’s God is able to accomplish (cf. the similar exchange in 3:15, 17, 29). 2:27–28 No wise man … can explain to the king the mystery … but there is a God in heaven. The text adds a fifth group of wise men here, “diviners” (NIV) or “fate determiners,” yet still no technical distinction is made between
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