• The No-Named Nobility

      Yesterday, while reading the first chapter of Daniel, I became intrigued at the thought of what happened to the other exiles who, like Daniel, had been carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar.  In this chapter, we are told that these exiles were members of… …the royal family and the nobility, youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding, learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace (vv. 3-4)… …in short, they were the very best young men that could be found in all of Judah.  And, because in the Hebrew language, the term “royal family” means “of the seed of the kingdom,”…