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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.
each case reference is made to one act of his
life. It seems strange that such a father should
be followed by a son of whom so little is
recorded, but it is gratifying to notice that
when the silence is broken, it is to relate a
deed of kindness. In the first year of his reign
he took from prison Jehoiachin, the former
king of Jerusalem, a man now fifty years of age,
who had languished in bonds since a boy of
eighteen. The Jewish ex-ruler was given
clothing and a king’s provisions, and exalted
above other kings in Babylon all the
remainder of his days.
Evil-merodach had been raised in the
Babylonian court, and had known of the Jews
and their history from his youth up. It would
not be an impossible thing that Daniel, made
