Concerning the Book of Daniel (for people who know about this)?

Question

My question is in Daniel chapter 1 (the first verses):

Was Israel captured by the king Nebuchadnezzar?

If it was captured by king Nebuchadnezzar, then, was that the reason why they captured Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah so that they will work for the king (Nebuchadnezzar)?

Answer 1

Yes they were delivered into the hands of the King. The bible says that Daniel and his friends were brought into the king's service because they were young, handsome and bright. God gave favor to Daniel because God had a great purpose for him. My bible study is in the book of Daniel this year....the things that happened during his lifetime are astounding.

Answer 2

Yes Daniel and his three friends were captured by king Neb... when the king attached Israel.

Answer 3

Yes, Israel was conquered by King Neb. and those people were known to still worship Yahweh, rather than giving allegiance to the King.

Answer 4

They were Hebrews.. but under the king... it was a Babylonian system. If you look... the four young men were given "new names"... so they would be "brainwashed" which failed. Their new names were intended to give them a Babylonian identification... thing is... the king could not take their character of being Hebrew away from them.

Answer 5

They didn't "capture" Daniel & company-they were with the group of Isrealites that were captured. My bible says that the "prince of eunichs" asked for unblemished Isrealite children that had arcane knowledge. Then were Daniel and company brought before the "prince".

Answer 6

Yes, but the reason those four young Hebrew boys stood out was because they did not defile themselves with the king's food and worshiped his images.

Answer 7

Quoting Barnes:

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem - This event occurred, according to Jahn (“History of the Hebrew Commonwealth”), in the year 607 b.c., and in the 368th year after the revolt of the ten tribes. According to Usher, it was in the 369th year of the revolt, and 606 b.c. The computation of Usher is the one generally received, but the difference of a year in the reckoning is not material. Compare Michaelis, Anmerkung, zu 2 Kon. xxiv. 1. Jehoiakim was a son of Josiah, a prince who was distinguished for his piety, 2Ki_22:2; 2Ch_35:1-7. After the death of Josiah, the people raised to the throne of Judah Jehoahaz, the youngest son of Josiah, probably because he appeared better qualified to reign than his elder brother, 2Ki_23:30; 2Ch_36:1. He was a wicked prince, and after he had been on the throne three months, he was removed by Pharaoh-nechoh, king of Egypt, who returned to Jerusalem from the conquest of Phoenicia, and placed his elder brother, Eliakim, to whom he gave the name of Jehoiakim, on the throne, 2Ki_23:34; 2Ch_36:4.

Jehoahaz was first imprisoned in Riblah, 2Ki_23:33, and was afterward removed to Egypt, 2Ch_36:4. Jehoiakim, an unworthy son of Josiah, was, in reality, as he is represented by Jeremiah, one of the worst kings who reigned over Judah. His reign continued eleven years, and as he came to the throne 611 b.c., his reign continued to the year 600 b.c. In the third year of his reign, after the battle of Megiddo, Pharaoh-nechoh undertook a second expedition against Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, with a numerous army, drawn in part from Western Africa, Lybia and Ethiopia. - Jahn’s Hist. Heb. “Commonwealth,” p. 134. This Nabopolassar, who is also called Nebuchadnezzar I, was at this time, as Berosus relates, aged and infirm. He therefore gave up a part of his army to his son Nebuchadnezzar, who defeated the Egyptian host at Carchemish (Circesium) on the Euphrates, and drove Nechoh out of Asia. The victorious prince marched directly to Jerusalem, which was then under the sovereignty of Egypt. After a short siege Jehoiakim surrendered, and was again placed on the throne by the Babylonian prince.

Nebuchadnezzar took part of the furniture of the temple as booty, and carried back with him to Babylon several young men, the sons of the principal Hebrew nobles, among whom were Daniel and his three friends referred to in this chapter. It is not improbable that one object in conveying them to Babylon was that they might be hostages for the submission and good order of the Hebrews in their own land. It is at this time that the Babylonian sovereignty over Judah commences, commonly called the Babylonian captivity, which, according to the prophecy of Jeremiah, Jer_25:1-14; Jer_29:10, was to continue seventy years. In Jer_25:1; Jer_46:2, it is said that this was in the fourth year of Jehoiakim; in the passage before us it is said that it was the third year. This difference, says Jahn, arises from a different mode of computation: “Jehoiakim came to the throne at the end of the year, which Jeremiah reckons as the first (and such a mode of reckoning is not uncommon), but Daniel, neglecting the incomplete year, numbers one less:” For a more full and complete examination of the objection to the genuineness of Daniel from this passage, I would refer to Prof. Stuart on Daniel, “Excursus” I. (See App. I. to this Vol.)

And besieged it - Jerusalem was a strongly-fortified place, and it was not easy to take it, except as the result of a siege. It was, perhaps, never carried by direct and immediate assault. Compare 2Ki_25:1-3, for an account of a siege of Jerusalem a second time by Nebuchadnezzar. At that time the city was besieged about a year and a half. How long the siege here referred to continued is not specified.

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