

In other words, the king expected these men that he chose and would ultimately train to be young men of poise and social grace and winsome personalities because they would have to function in a royal setting without causing the king embarrassment. who had ability to serve in the king's palace". Not only physical, intellectual, but a social test was added to the list in verse 4, "Young men. They must be knowledgeable, and the Bible says they must be quick to learn, a quick study. Those who were to serve the king must be highly intelligent. In addition to their physical prowess, they had to have a high IQ. Verse 4 says they had to be "gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge, and quick to understand". And then they had to pass an intellectual test. So they brought these young men into Babylon. "They were young enough to make the adjustment to a new place, and they were old enough to learn what was going on there". In fact, the word for "young" is the original language, refers to someone who's between 14 and 17 years of age. These young men had to be the finest, the choicest of the men in Judah. This is about the only place in the Bible where I've ever read that good-looking matters, but here it mattered. They had to be young men in whom there was no blemish, and they had to be good-looking. First of all, the physical test in verse 4. And here were the tests they had to follow. The elite of Judah's young men were brought to Babylon, and they were inspected with the view to becoming servants of Nebuchadnezzar in his palace. In order to be a part of Nebuchadnezzar's program, you had to meet the conditions for selection, and we read about this in verses 3 and 4 of Daniel 1, ".the king instructed Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, to bring some of the children of Israel and some of the king's descendants and some of the nobles, young men in whom there was no blemish, but good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick to understand, who had ability to serve in the king's palace". So now Nebuchadnezzar has the articles of the temple in his idol's house, and he has some of the choice young men of Israel in Babylon, and he's about to put them through some training so that they can become his representatives in the kingdom where there will be many other Jewish people.

It was a short-lived victory, as you know. And to take those implements and put them in your temple was a reminder to anyone who knew it that the god Marduk had defeated the god of Israel.

Because you see, in that day, when you defeated a nation, it was thought that you also defeated that nation's god. He took the chalices and the vessels and all of the beautiful utensils that Solomon had put into the temple to enhance the worship of almighty God, and he took those vessels, and he carried them to Babylon and put them in the temple of an idol. Here we read that the Lord gave into Nebuchadnezzar's hand "some of the articles of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar," which is another name for Babylon, "to the house of his god". After the great defection, there was a great deportation. He took the Babylonians to punish the Israelites to get good out of it, and now the great defection has happened. God turned evil against evil to accomplish good. Judah was also guilty of idolatry and gross sin, and God had finally had enough of it, so God got the Babylonians, the most wicked nation in the world, to carry out His judgment. And of course, Judah was not only guilty of neglecting the Sabbath of the Lord. For all those years, the land of Israel lay fallow, collecting all the Sabbaths that had been neglected. For 70 years, they were in captivity because they refused to do what God called them to do. Watch drama online for free.Historians record that Jerusalem fell to Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians in 605 B.C., and it also tells us that the king deported Jewish hostages from Jerusalem to Babylon, leaving Jerusalem in ruins, with only a few of the poor, aged, and infirm still in the land. Jeong Min encounters a real brutality that is way different and more extreme than the ones he has seen in the movies. Jeong-min tries to find his way out, while the kidnappers demand him a huge amount of ransom within 24 hours. Jeong Min first thinks that someone is playing pranks, but the kidnappers' cruelty helps Jeong Min realize that the abduction is no joke.
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