It was certainly not an easy life or an easy time in the history of Israel for Daniel to live. A law was even passed forbidding the worship of anyone/anything except the Persian king. Peer pressure was strong to get him to conform. There were continual temptations to live as the sinful people around him. All the rest of his life he lived in a pagan and sinful culture. Daniel was merely a boy when he was forced to leave everything he knew. Jews loved their homeland, Jerusalem, and the temple, but were forced from their homes and taken to a foreign culture and country. Daniel, along with many other native Hebrews, were exiled in Babylon for many years. and taken to Babylon after the siege of Jerusalem ended (it started in 605 B.C.) Israel had been under attack for some time and succumbed to the world power of Babylon. When and where he lived: Daniel grew up in a turbulent time. Daniel lived in Babylon for over 60 years, into his eighties. After a time of training in the Babylonian ways, culture, language, etc he entered the personal service of Nebuchadnezzar as an adviser and also an overseer. He was taken as a captive for just these reasons. He was young, likely 16-18 at this time, good-looking, intelligent, and wise. Name: Daniel- God is Judge (Belteshazzar)- May Bel protect his lifeĪncestry and family life: We know that Daniel was a young man of the nobility and was the cream of the crop of the Israelites (1:3-4).
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