Study in Daniel

If you look at Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, the four young men that came from Judah under the captivity when Nebuchadnezzar’s first invasion of Judah and were brought back into Babylon and were being trained to be wise men of Babylon and to be conformed to the Babylonian culture. They were given new names. Daniel’s name was changed to Belteshazzar, Hananiah to Shadrach, Mishael to Meshach, and Azariah to Abednego. And when we studied and looked at their names…

And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king. 20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm. 21 And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus. And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar…