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Daniel and the Lions' Den
17 Sep 2026 · 10:58
Jealous rivals trap a faithful old man with his own lifelong habit of prayer — and a king who signed the law finds himself hoping, all night, that it fails.
By the time this story takes place, Daniel was an old man — but he had not slowed down, and he had not compromised. Decades earlier, as a young man, he had been taken from Jerusalem to Babylon and had risen to serve in the court of King Nebuchadnezzar, interpreting dreams no one else in the kingdom could make sense of, and staying faithful to his own God the entire time even while living deep inside a foreign empire that worshipped different ones. Kingdoms had risen and fallen since then. Babylon itself had fallen. And now a new king sat on the throne of what had once been Nebuchadnezzar's empire: Darius the Mede.
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