Daniel 1:1-2
1599 Geneva Bible
Daniel
1 1 The captivity of Jehoiakim king of Judah. 4 The king chooseth certain young men of the Jews to learn his law. 5 They have the king’s ordinary appointed, 8 but they abstain from it.
1 In the [a]third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, came Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel unto Jerusalem and besieged it.
2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand with part of the vessels of the house of God, which he carried into the land of [b]Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into his god’s treasury.
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- Daniel 1:1 Read 2 Kings 24:1 and Jer. 25:1.
- Daniel 1:2 Which was a plain by Babylon, where was the Temple of their great god, and is here taken for Babylon.
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