Thursday, January 17, 2008
Daniel 1:1-5 (NIV)
1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 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 [a] and put in the treasure house of his god. 3 Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring in some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility- 4 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. [b] 5 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.
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Here was fulfilled what the prophet Isaiah had foretold in Isaiah 39:7: 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...." I assume that Daniel and his friends were some of the king's captives....It's interesting to see how God never forsakes or gives up on His first peoples - the Israelites. Though He lets Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon conquer Israel, He shows mercy to them and still gives them a chance by selecting a few good men from the royal family and the nobility to serve in the temple courts. In the same way, we should remember that God will never leave us alone or forsake us.
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