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THE STORY OF DANIEL THE PROPHET

Stephen N. Haskell

“But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest and stand in thy
lot at the end of the days.” Daniel 12:13.

The study of the book of Daniel demands,

therefore, that we take time to trace the

history of Babylon as a nation.

A period of about twenty-five years intervenes

between the close of the fourth and the

opening of the fifth chapter. The reign of

Nebuchadnezzar closed shortly after the

restoration of his reason as related in the

fourth chapter of Daniel. From a worldly point

of view, his had been a long and prosperous

reign, and at its close there were no signs of

weakening in the empire. Nebuchadnezzar

had a son of age to fill the place of his father.

No one questioned his right to the throne, and

while they mourned the death of

Nebuchadnezzar, apparently the subjects had

much reason to rejoice over the succession of