Relevant Verse: Daniel 1

Theme: Integrity and wisdom in Babylon

Leading Question: What does it mean to live with courage and integrity?

The story of this week finds young Daniel marching as a captive on a dusty road from Jerusalem to Babylon. Babylonian official records—Chronicles of Chaldean Kings—tell us what happened in the year 605 B.C.E.: “At that time Nebuchadnezzar conquered the whole area of the Hatti country. For twenty-one years, Nabopolassar had been king of Babylon. On the 8th of the month of Ab he died; in the month of Elul Nebuchadnezzar returned to Babylon, and on the first day ...