DANIEL 
prefixed the ening aed verfes of Buchanan. Irving’s 
Memoirs of Georg eB uchar nan, ° 
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he was carried captive from Jerufalem to Babylon by Ath- 
penaz, matter of the eunuchs, under the order of Nebuchad- 
nezzar, in the 4th year of Jehoiachim, king of Judah, 605 
years B.C. Daniel was called Beltefhazzar, and his three 
companions in exile were Hananiah, Mithael, and Azariah, 
who were denominated Shadrach, Mefhac, and Abed-nego. 
of the eunuchs, in order to be inftruéted by him in the lan- 
guage and literature of the Chaldeans, previoufly to their 
bu chadnezzar, as 
province of Babylon. 
years could not have been fufficient for his inftrudtion in the 
favour, he was not unmindful of his three companions in 
his recommendation, they were preferred 
under him in the province of 
Babylon. Their conftancy i in the profeffion of AG: religion 
is Faure dees in the third chapter.of his book. 
In the 7th year of Zedekiah, the 14th of Nebuchadnez- 
ar, B.C, a Daniel had acquired fuch a character for 
his wifdom, and alfo for his piety and virtue, that the pro- 
Peet Ezekiel (ch. xxviii. 3. ) records it as a kind of proverb, 
‘ Thou art wifer than Daniel,”? in his ironical — to 
the king of Tyre; and in another place (ch. xiv. 14. 2 
God is ee as claffing him _ ae and Job, oe as 
faying, “ Though thefe three me Daniel, and Jo 
were in it, they fhould deliver Sl ae own fouls by their 
righteoufnefs.”? At this time, if we allow him to have 
been 18, when he was carried away to a rlon, ane eben 
up for the peli of the ring = could not have been more 
than 32 age ; t he scared ie prim 
and vigour of | 118 5 Life to the eee of God. 
chadnezzar returned to 
war; and out of the {poils collected in €X 
a golden i image to the eae of Be s god, ‘whi ch 
nof Dura; a on this occafion he 
of Nebuchadnezzar, the 19th 
itruction of erufalem, 570 B.C., he returned from 
Egyptian expedition, to Babylon, end there dreamed of a 
wonderful ve tree, and the cutting down of it, of which 
we have an account in the 4th chapter of the book of Das 
his dream was interpreted by th 
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the Maccabees, (ch. viii.) Daniel informs us v.),t 
Belfhazzar (in the 17th year of his reign, B. C. 559.) = 
a great feak, on which occafion he applied to common 
cee took the kingdom. e han a6 n the wall, 
and the awful interpretation of it by Daniel, anaes he has 
well kno Cyaxa ares and Cy- 
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pire, determined to divide it into 120 provinces, over which 
were appointed three prefidents, who were 
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a in’ the whole ey excited the jealoufy and envy of 
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ech occafioned his being caft into the lion’s den. But 
cing paca so re{cued from injury, this malicious con- 
minated in the deftruGion of its authors; and 
] i. 28.) Inthe 1ft year of Darius, 
he delivered his ‘cack ain of the advent of the Mef- 
iah, (fee the next article); and he had alfo another remarks 
ab e vifion, in which the angel Gabriel difcovered to him 
the events that were to occur in Perfia after the death of 
yris he arrival of Alexander the Great, the overs 
throw of the Perfian empire, the Greek dominion, the con- 
tin e kingdom of Syria and Egypt, the 
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Perflans, over awk he reigned feven years. 
excellent prince had formed a very favourable epmien of 
Daniel when he fir came to Babylon and took the city 5 
arid when he returned thither again from his Syeian expe 
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