How were they to make sense of exile and the destruction of the temple, the center of their religion? Was the God of their ancestors still their personal God, and they his people? Through stories of God’s providence and visions of future salvation, Daniel wrote to inspire hope among his people and stir up faithfulness to God. Daniel and his three friends were among those first brought into exile, facing many fears and doubts. 609-597 BC), the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem and started the first of many deportations to Babylon (Daniel 1:1).
In 605, the third year of King Jehoiakim (ca.
Israel, its sister kingdom to the north has already been exiled (722 BC), and now Judah faces the same fate.
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