Book of Daniel, Part 2 - a podcast by Evg. K V Thomas

Title Headings
1) 7 Ages of Prophecy in Bible
2) Ages of Prophets. (Verse)-
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 gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god. (Daniel 1:1-2, ESV).

(Highlights) Dan. 1:1 third year. 606–605 b.c. It was the third year by Babylonian dating, which did not count a king’s initial (accession) year, but began with the following year. So the “third year” is in harmony with the same year labeled as “fourth” by the Judean system of dating (cf. Jer. 46:2). Jehoiakim. Son of Josiah who ruled (c. 609–597 b.c.) when Nebuchadnezzar first plundered Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar. Son of Nabopolassar who ruled Babylon (c. 605–562 b.c.).

Dan. 1:2 Shinar. A term for Babylon. his god. Bel or Marduk (same as Merodach). Babylonian religion recognized other gods too (cf. 1:7 and see note there). To conquer another nation’s deities was thought to prove the superiority of the victor’s god.

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