![]() ![]() It hints to four kingdoms.Ĭh.3 - Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, Daniel's young friends, refuse to bow to a statue put up by the king. (See also: Reliability of the Hebrew Bible)Ĭh.1 - Daniel in Nevuchadnezzar's palace insists on kosher food.Ĭh.2 - Daniel interprets the king's (Nevuchadnezzar's) dream, of a beast made of gold, silver, brass, iron and clay. ![]() Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Darius and Cyrus (Daniel, chapters 1, 5 and 6).ĭaniel's gravesite is known to this day, in Susa, Iran. It is more likely that Daniel served no king, either of Babylon or Persia. There is no evidence outside the Book of Daniel that the character Daniel even existed, although it should be expected that records would exist of someone who held such exalted positions in both the Babylonian and Persian empires. If the above sequence seems strange, it is because the Book of Daniel was actually written about four hundred years after the events it sees to portray, and the author had a limited grasp of what was already ancient history. Thus he served under four kings in the Book of Daniel. Daniel served Darius with distinction until his death and then served Cyrus, who was actually king of Persia from about 560 to 530 BCE. The book credits Darius the Mede with conquering Babylon, and Darius was king of Persia from 522 to 486 BCE. According to the Book of Daniel, Daniel served under the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar from 597 to about 562 BCE, then under Belshazzar. ![]()
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