![]() While beloved and honoured by the princes and potentates of Babylon, he enjoyed an infinitely higher exaltation in being beloved and honoured by God and His holy angels and admitted to a knowledge of the counsels of the Most High.ĭaniel's prophecies are in many respects the most remarkable of any in the sacred record and is the most comprehensive. But Daniel was entrusted with the more enduring honours. So brief was its supremacy, so transient its glory. Its period of greatness and prosperity was embraced within the limits of the lifetime of one man. From the height of its glory he saw that kingdom decline and pass into other hands. His life affords a most impressive lesson of the importance and advantage of maintaining from earliest youth strict integrity toward God.īut Daniel is not alone with his connection with the Chaldean monarchy that perpetuates the memory of Daniel and covers his name with honour. 606-536, predicted by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 25:11), Daniel resided at the court of Babylon most of the time as prime minister of that brilliant monarchy. But both these finished their work years before the close of the long and brilliant career of Daniel.ĭuring the seventy years of the captivity of the Jews, B.C. Ezekiel commenced soon after and a little later, Obadiah. Jeremiah and Habakkuk were yet uttering their prophecies. He first appears as one of the noble captives of Judah in the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, at the commencement of the seventy years captivity, B.C. His birth and linage are left in complete obscurity except that he was of the royal line, probably of the house of David, which had at this time become very numerous. After a thorough study of the Word we find we have a more minute account of Daniel's early life than is recorded of that of any other prophet.
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