Daniel 1 New International Version (NIV)
Daniel’s
Training in Babylon
In
the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah,
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged
it. And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the
articles from the temple
of God. These he carried
off to the temple of his god in Babylonia and
put in the treasure house of his god.
Then the king ordered Ashpenaz,
chief of his court officials, to bring into the king’s service some of the
Israelites from the royal family and the nobility— young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing
aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and
qualified to serve in the king’s palace. He was to teach them the language and
literature of the Babylonians. The
king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king’s table. They
were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the
king’s service.
Among those who were chosen
were some from Judah:
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. The chief
official gave them new names: to Daniel, the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah,
Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
But Daniel resolved not to
defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official
for permission not to defile himself this way. Now
God had caused the official to show favor and compassion to Daniel, but the official told Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the
king, who has assigned your food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse
than the other young men your age? The king would then have my head because of
you.”
Daniel then said to the guard
whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and
Azariah, “Please test your servants for ten
days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who
eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.”
So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days.
At the end of the ten days
they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate
the royal food. So the guard took away their
choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.
To these four young men God
gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And
Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.
At the end of the time set by
the king to bring them into his service, the chief official presented them to
Nebuchadnezzar. The king talked with them, and
he found none equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered
the king’s service. In every matter of wisdom
and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times
better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.
And Daniel remained there
until the first year of King Cyrus.
Unbelievers or New Believers – Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible [1]
Jeremiah 25:11-16 New International Version (NIV)
Seventy
Years of Captivity
This whole country will
become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
“But when the seventy years
are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon
and his nation, the land of the Babylonians, for their guilt,” declares the Lord, “and will make it desolate forever. I will bring on that land all the things I have spoken
against it, all that are written in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah
against all the nations. They themselves will
be enslaved by many nations and great kings; I will repay them according to
their deeds and the work of their hands.
The
Cup of God’s Wrath
This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my
hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom
I send you drink it. When they drink it, they
will stagger and go mad because of the sword I will send among them.”
Unbelievers or New Believers – Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible [1]
Job 5:3 New International Version (NIV)
“I myself have seen
a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.”
Unbelievers or New Believers – Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible [1]
Proverbs 29:16 New International Version (NIV)
“When the wicked
thrive, so does sin, but the righteous will see their downfall.”
Unbelievers or New Believers – Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible [1]
Isaiah 39:6-7 New International Version (NIV)
“The time will
surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have
stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord. And some of your
descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken
away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
Unbelievers or New Believers – Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible [1]
Jeremiah 27:18 New International Version (NIV)
“If they are
prophets and have the word of the Lord,
let them plead with the Lord Almighty that the
articles remaining in the house of the Lord
and in the palace of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem not be taken to
Babylon.”
Unbelievers or New Believers – Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible [1]
In Jesus’ Name.
Amen.
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