![]() ![]() But observe, It was only part of them that went now some were left them yet upon trial, to see if they would take the right course to prevent the carrying away of the remainder. It is probable that the treasures of the king's house were rifled, as was foretold, but particular mention is made of the taking away of the vessels of the sanctuary because we shall find afterwards that the profanation of them was that which filled up the measure of the Chaldeans' iniquity, ch. Note, When men profane the vessels of the sanctuary with their sins it is just with God to profane them by his judgments. See the righteousness of God his people had brought the images of other gods into his temple, and now he suffers the vessels of the temple to be carried into the treasuries of those other gods. Many of the holy vessels which used to be employed in the service of God were taken away by the king of Babylon, those of them, it is likely, which were most valuable, and he brought them as trophies of victory to the house of his god, to whom, with a blind devotion, he gave praise of his success and having appropriated these vessels, in token of gratitude, to his god, he put them in the treasury of his temple. And now, to show them the vanity of that confidence, the temple is first plundered. They fondly trusted to the temple to defend them, though they went on in their iniquity. The vessels of the sanctuary were carried away, part of them, v. If less judgments do the work, God will not send greater but, if not, he will heat the furnace seven times hotter. 39:6, 7), that the treasures and the children should be carried away, and, if they had been humbled and reformed by this, hitherto the king of Babylon's power and success should have gone, but no further. It was denounced against Hezekiah, for showing his treasures to the king of Babylon's ambassadors ( Isa. He did not destroy the city or kingdom, but did that which just accomplished the first threatening of mischief by Babylon. Broughton observes the proportion of times in God's government since the coming out of Egypt: thence to their entering Canaan forty years, thence seven years to the dividing of the land, thence seven Jubilees to the first year of Samuel, in whom prophecy began, thence to this first year of the captivity seven seventies of years, 490 (ten Jubilees), thence to the return one seventy, thence to the death of Christ seven seventies more, thence to the destruction of Jerusalem forty years. The righteous, that see them taking root, shall see their fall, Job 5:3 Prov. This one prophet therefore saw within the compass of his own time the rise, reign, and ruin of that monarchy so that it was res unius aetatis-the affair of a single age, such short-lived things are the kingdoms of the earth but the kingdom of heaven is everlasting. 21), during which time all nations shall serve Nebuchadnezzar, and his son, and his son's son, Jer. Now from this first captivity most interpreters think the seventy years are to be dated, though Jerusalem was not destroyed, nor the captivity completed, till about nineteen years after, In that first year Daniel was carried to Babylon, and there continued the whole seventy years (see v. 1, 2): He besieged Jerusalem, soon made himself master of it, seized the king, took whom he pleased and what he pleased away with him, and then left Jehoiakim to reign as tributary to him, which he did about eight years longer, but then rebelled, and it was his ruin. Of the first descent which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, made upon Judah and Jerusalem, in the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim, and his success in that expedition ( v. Their wonderful improvement, above all their fellows, in wisdom and knowledge ( v. ![]() Their pious refusal to eat the portion of the king's meat, and their determining to live upon pulse and water, which, having tried it, the master of the eunuchs allowed them to do, finding that it agreed very well with them ( v. The choice made of Daniel, and some other young men, to be brought up in the Chaldean literature, that they might be fitted to serve the government, and the provision made for them ( v. 1, 2), in which Daniel, with others of the seed-royal, was carried to Babylon. Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, began immediately with divine visions but Daniel began with the study of human learning, and was afterwards honoured with divine visions such variety of methods has God taken in training up men for the service of his church. This chapter gives us a more particular account of the beginning of Daniel's life, his original and education, than we have of any other of the prophets. An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Book of the Prophet Daniel Chapter 1
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