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Daniel 1:1-2
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Daniel 1:1-2
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Daniel Taken to Babylon
1 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and surrounded it with his army. This happened during the third year that Jehoiakim[a] was king of Judah. 2 The Lord allowed Nebuchadnezzar to defeat Jehoiakim king of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar took all the dishes and other things from God’s Temple and carried them to Babylon.[b] He put those things in the temple of his gods.
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- Daniel 1:1 the third year … Jehoiakim This was about 605 B.C.
- Daniel 1:2 Babylon Literally, “Shinar,” which may be a form of the name Sumer.
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