Bible scholars actually engaged in a really painstaking mental
‘torture’ to calculate that it was about 600 years before our Lord and Master
was born that King Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem and took captive many of
Israel’s finest citizens and ‘carted’ them to Babylonia. Among these were three
young men from the tribe of Judah [four actually, but this article zeroes in on
the three].
It is instructive to know that it was God who actually gave
Nebuchadnezzar victory over Judah as a result of their outright rejection of His
tenets, leading ungodly lives by majority of them etc… God actually permitted
him to take some of the sacred items from His temple. Interestingly,
Nebuchadnezzar, haven been permitted by the Supreme God to take these priceless
items belonging to Him, he in turn placed it in the ‘treasure house’ of his
‘god’.
