Daniel 1:1-2

Contemporary English Version

Daniel and His Friends

1 ^(A) In the third year that Jehoiakim was king of Judah,^[a] King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia attacked Jerusalem. ^2 (B) The Lord let Nebuchadnezzar capture Jehoiakim and take away some of the things used in God's temple. And when the king returned to Babylonia,^[b] he put these things in the temple of his own god.