Daniel 1:1
King James Version (KJV)
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
Translations
Daniel 1:1 - Amplified Bible
IN THE third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
Daniel 1:1 - American Standard Version
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
Daniel 1:1 - Bible in Basic English
In the third year of the rule of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, shutting it in with his forces.
Daniel 1:1 - Darby Bible
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
Daniel 1:1 - English Standard Version
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
Daniel 1:1 - King James Version
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
Daniel 1:1 - La Biblia de las Americas
En el año tercero del reinado de Joacim, rey de Judá, vino Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, a Jerusalén y la sitiò.
Daniel 1:1 - The Message
It was the third year of King Jehoiakim’s reign in Judah when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon declared war on Jerusalem and besieged the city. The Master handed King Jehoiakim of Judah over to him, along with some of the furnishings from the Temple of God. Nebuchadnezzar took king and furnishings to the country of Babylon, the ancient Shinar. He put the furnishings in the sacred treasury.
Daniel 1:1 - New American Standard Bible
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
Daniel 1:1 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy
En el tercer año del reinado de Joacim, rey de Judá, vino Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, a Jerusalén y la sitiò.
Daniel 1:1 - World English Bible
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it.
Daniel 1:1 - Young's Living Translation
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, come hath Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and layeth siege against it;
Daniel 1:1 - Additional Comments
Daniel is Hebrew which signifies the judgment of God; his Chaldean name was Belteshazzar. He was of the tribe of Judah.
Some Jewish rabbis don't acknowledge him to be a prophet of the higher form, and therefore rank his book among the Hagiographa, not among the prophecies, and would not have their disciples pay much regard to it. One reason is because he did not live such a mean base life as Jeremiah and some other of the prophets did, but lived like a prince, and was a prime-minister of state. But he was persecuted as other prophets were (ch. 6), and basing himself as other prophets did, when he ate no pleasant bread (10:3), and became sick when he was prophesying, in 8:27. Another reason they say is because he wrote his book in a heathen country, and there had his visions, not in the land of Israel (but Ezekiel did the same). But the true reason is that he speaks so plainly of the time of the Messiah's coming that the Jews cannot avoid the conviction of it and therefore do not care to hear of it. But Josephus calls him one of the greatest of the prophets, nay, the angel Gabriel calls him a man greatly beloved.
Daniel was a respected youth in Judah at the time of King Jehoiakim. Daniel, together with much of Judah's leadership, was carried off to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar. They then tried to indoctrinate Daniel and his companions in the ways of Babylon. They even trained him to serve the royal throne.
He lived a long and active life in the courts and councils of some of the greatest monarchs the world ever had, i.e. Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, and Darius.
Some have thought that he returned to Jerusalem, and was one of the masters of the Greek synagogue; but nothing of that appears in scripture; it is therefore generally concluded that he died in Persia at Susan, where he lived to be very old.
The first six chapters of the book are historical, and are straightforward, but the last six are prophetical, and in them are many things dark, and hard to be understood, due in part because of a lack of a sufficiently complete history of the nations, and especially the Jewish nation, from Daniel's time to the coming of the Messiah.
Daniel, according to computation, continues the holy story from the first surprising of Jerusalem by the Chaldean Babel, when he himself was carried away captive, until the last destruction of it by Rome, the mystical Babel, for so far forward his predictions look, in 9:27.
Jehoiakim was the third to last king of Judah, and did evil in the sight of the Lord (2 Kings 23:36-37). See the notes on 2 King 22:1.
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