Daniel 1:1-7

Daniel Taken to Babylon

1In the third year of athe reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of bthe vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to cthe land of Shinar, to the house of his god, dand placed the vessels in the treasury of his god. 3Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, ehis chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family
Hebrew  of the seed of the kingdom
and of gthe nobility,
4youths without hblemish, of good appearance and iskillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace, and to jteach them the literature and language of the kChaldeans. 5The king assigned them a daily portion of lthe food that the king ate, and of mthe wine that he drank. They were to be educated for nthree years, and at the end of that time they were to ostand before the king. 6Among these were pDaniel, qHananiah, rMishael, and sAzariah of the tribe of Judah. 7And tthe chief of the eunuchs ugave them names: vDaniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego.

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