Daniel Taken to Babylon

1 During the third year that Jehoiakim was king of Judah [^C605 bc], Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon [^Cruled 605–562 bc] came to Jerusalem and ·surrounded it with his army [besieged/^Lpressed it].

⁶ Among those young men were Daniel [^C“God is my judge”], Hananiah [^C“The Lord is gracious to me”], Mishael [^C“Who is like God”], and Azariah [^C“The Lord is my helper”] from the ·people [^Lsons] of Judah.