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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 6 – Daniel in the Lion’s Den
occasion against this Daniel, except we find
it against him concerning the law of his God.
BABYLON was taken by the Persians, and
Darius the Median placed upon the throne, B.
C. 538. Two years later, B. C. 536, Darius dying,
Cyrus took the throne. Somewhere, therefore,
between these two dates the event here
narrated occurred.
Daniel was a chief actor in the kingdom of
Babylon in the height of its glory; and from
that time on, to the time when the Medes and
Persians took the throne of universal empire,
he was at least a resident of that city, and
acquainted with all the affairs of the kingdom;
yet he gives us no consecutive account of
events that occurred during his long
connection with these kingdoms. He only
touches upon an event here and there such as
