Daniel 1:1-7

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Good morning. All right. Andy was kind enough to give us this room because we needed some more room so that everybody wasn't piled on top each other. So I was thankful for that. Would one of you gentlemen want to open us up with a word of prayer anyone any takers any takers?

All right, I'll take it. Most gracious Heavenly Father. Thank you for this opportunity once again to Open your word father. You have been so gracious to give us Revealed will and revelation of how you were going to work out your plan of redemption through first your covenant people The nation of Israel through on through the church and father.

We thank you for this opportunity. God I pray that as I teach your word that I would explain it clearly. It would be with understanding and a father you would be honored and glorified and your son would be magnified in Christ's name.

Amen. All right, so if you'll take your your Bibles and turn to.

Daniel Chapter 1 and the Babylonian Exile

Daniel chapter 1 I'm gonna read the whole chapter.

We'll probably go through verse 7 though, but I'm gonna read the whole chapter. In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem. He besieged it and the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand along with some of the vessels of the house of God and he brought them to the land Of Shinar to the house of his God and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his God.

Then the king ordered Ashkenaz the chief of the officials or some of your translation may say eunuchs to bring some of the sons of Israel including some of the royal family and the nobles and the youths and to whom was no defect who were good-looking showing intelligence in every branch of wisdom endowed with Understanding and discerning knowledge and who had ability to serve in the king's court and he ordered him to teach them the literature and the language of the Chaldeans.

And the king appointed for them a daily ration from the king's choice food and from the wine which he drank and appointed. That they would that they should be educated for three years at the end of which they were to enter the king's service personal service.

Now among them were the sons of Judah or Daniel Hananiah Mishael and Azariah and The commander of the officials assigned new names to them to Daniel. He assigned the name Belteshazzar to Hananiah Shadrach Mishael Meshach and to Azariah Abednego.

But Daniel made up in his mind that he would not defile himself with the king's choice food or with the wine which he drank. So he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself.

Now God granted Daniel favor and Compassion in the sight of the commander of the officials and the commander of the officials said to Daniel I'm afraid of my lord the king Who has appointed your food and your drink.

Why should you why should he see your faces looking more haggard than the other use whom are your own age? Then you would make me an offense to him and he would take my head or forfeit my head. But Daniel Said to the overseer whom the commander of the officials had appointed over Daniel Hananiah Mishael Nazariah Please test your servants for ten days let us be given some vegetables to eat water to drink and then let our appearance be observed in Your presence and in the appearance of the use whom are eating the king's choice food and deal with your servants According to what you see so he listened to them in this matter and he tested them for ten days and at the end of the ten days.

The appearance seemed better and they were fatter than all the other use who had been eating the King's choice food. So the overseer continued to withhold their choice food and wine and they were in their drink and kept.

Giving them vegetables as for these four God gave them knowledge and intelligence in every branch of literature and wisdom. Daniel even understood all kinds of dreams and visions. Then at the end of the days the king had specified.

At the end of those days he had specified for presenting them the commander of the officials to present them before Nebuchadnezzar. Then King the king talked with them and Out out of all of them. Not one of them was found like Daniel Hananiah Mishael and Azariah.

So they entered the king's personal service and as for every matter of wisdom and understanding About which the king consulted them. He found them ten times better than all the other magicians of conjurers Who were in all of his realm and Daniel continued until the first year of the reign of Cyrus the king?

Well last week. We remember we had wrote kind of some time some dates on.

The Date of the First Deportation and Jehoiakim’s Reign

The board for us to figure out where we were at. Does anybody better remember?

From last week. Let me clarify this anytime. I'm using dates. This is going to be BC. Okay, so that nobody thinks we're In. In the modern era. Remember what I said. This date was last week the final.

Exile first first first now I.

Would imagine a good. I mean you want to clarify this because I didn't think I had time last week to get through all the dates. Most of your study Bible, I bet they probably say 605. Okay. I'll say 605.

Okay, I am in the minority. I'm just gonna let you know I use this date and I'm fixing to explain why I use that date. Because I know if you read if you read in other commentaries we listen to somebody else preach that they're gonna say 605.

There are other people that believe that that isn't the first deportation. They believe that the first deportation was really not a deportation and they begin the date at 597. Y 'all remember that that was the second.

And this is when if you remember last week. That's when Ezekiel goes and we know that because Ezekiel tells us that so we know that this date. But let me tell you how I come up to this day and it has to do.

Within.

These first couple of verses it says in the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah. Who's Jehoiakim? Smart guy. He's the king. All right, he was the son of Josiah. Last week remember when we were talking Josiah went to battle against Pharaoh Nietzsche and was killed in the valley of Megiddo.

Jehoiah has his son was put in his place as to reign that he was put in place. To actually he that was the succession. Nietzsche didn't like that joy as it was not pro-egypt. So he hauled him off to Egypt and he put Eliakim in his place then changed his name to Jehoiakim.

Okay, that's how he gets his name Jehoiakim. So that's who's in power. When the when this when this here takes place. That would have been in the third year of his reign and it says that the king Nebuchadnezzar sieged Jerusalem.

Now, that's all right. He's sieged Jerusalem now. We know from Babylonian cuneiforms that Nebuchadnezzar did not even come. He didn't eat his regal year. Okay regal year regal year means his first year his first year of reign.

His Succession year. That's when Nebuchadnezzar died. His dad remember when he is made when Nebuchadnezzar is making his conquest across the Mesopotamia across Syria Persia all of that that started back 612 when the fall of Nineveh happened.

Nebuchadnezzar was the general so he's not even when these First getting their rise, so if you go back to Habakkuk Prophet he's talking about this very thing that's happening. He talks about wait a minute.

These guys were ruthless. They're hateful people. You're gonna send the Chaldeans to judge us. They were just making their rise into the world seen as a great world Empire. They were just starting their conquest.

So you may remember what last week with that date was?

605 what happened? Battle of Carchemish. Battle of Carchemish is where Nebuchadnezzar Defeats the Egyptian power and the Assyrians. Now it is at this point is the superpower.

605.

And that exactly and this is why they believe. This is when it begins and I'm saying no and we have Biblical internal to support my idea. If you disagree with me, just don't throw a chair hot coffee. Okay, I'm gonna explain how I came up with that number because I know the vast majority of your Bibles will have something different, okay.

They become the superpower. It is at this point where Nebuchadnezzar now demands. Whoever was paying tribute to Egypt now must pay tribute to me not me my call your but pay tribute to Nebuchadnezzar.

So who does Judah owe tribute now to?

Nebuchadnezzar right. Nebuchadnezzar turn your Bibles over to second. I think it's a second Kings.

24 no wonder that was said Zedekiah if that was in 25.

All right. And. In his days Nebuchadnezzar came up and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Four foot perfect number one. 24 verse 1 Second Kings, I'm sorry. Did I not say that? If I apologize.

Second second Kings 24. This would have been is a session year.

First year, where does that bring us to?

That's how you get the three years. You're gonna see this constant discrepancy through the book of Daniel you're gonna hear. Third year. Well, wait a minute. It says now he's in his second year and it has to do with the when they ascended to the throne.

The first year okay in the year that they're in that makes three years, okay, right and Hebrew literature revelation any any Hebrew Chronology one portion of one thing could mean the whole year. Okay, and could be.

The next full year and any portion of that following year mean three years. Just as it seems Jesus was in the grave three days. It's fixed on the obvious discrepancy. Well, no, he was not. Well, yeah, he died before the Sun went down there.

His body was put in the grave in the daytime. He was in in a day and the night you understand we good. We all agree or disagree. Okay, if I'm not explaining it well enough, I need to know because I don't want to I don't want to be confusing.

So.

Now this is three years, okay. Three years. Verse one of Second Kings. And in his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him and the Lord sent against him bands of Chaldeans bands of Armenians Armenians Arameans bands of Moabites bands of Ammonites.

So he sent them against Judah to destroy it according to the word of the Lord that he had spoken through his servants the prophets understand. Three years he was supposed to be paying tribute. Now he's decided he's gonna throw off Nebuchadnezzar.

Okay.

Then it says in.

In verse 3 surely he commanded the Lord it came upon Judah to remove from them from his sight because of the sins of Manasseh According to all that had been done and also for the innocent blood which he said in Jerusalem With the prophets and the Lord would not forgive him now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim And all that he did are they not in the book of the Chronicles of Judah?

All right now We want to know more about what happened. Turn your Bible over to 2nd Chronicles 36.

Look.

2nd Chronicles 36. And I'm gonna begin in verse 1 because it basically gave gives you the rundown of how we got to where we're at. It says in the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him King in the place of his father in Jerusalem.

Joahaz was 23 years old when he became king and he reigned for three months then the king of Egypt deposed him Jerusalem and imposed Land to find a hundred talents of silver 100 talents of gold and the king of Egypt made Eliakim.

Remember Eliakim his brother king over Judah in Jerusalem and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Nietzsche took Joe as rodeo. All right. Here it is verse 5. Joachim was 25 years old when he became king.

He reigned for 11 years total in Jerusalem and he did evil in the sight of the Lord. Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon came up against him bound him with bronze chains and he took him to Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the articles of the house of the Lord to Babylon and put them in his temple and now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and the abomination which he did and What was found against him?

Behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah and Jehoiakim his brother came his place. So do you understand what happened now? How we come to this day everybody? Understand.

He's for three years. He was supposed to be paying Nebuchadnezzar he did not. Nebuchadnezzar said all right. I got something for you. He beseeched the city. Not only did he take off Daniel and his three buddies.

Who does it say he took with him? Jehoiakim he took Jehoiakim. Jehoiakim comes back though. Okay, Jehoiakim comes back and he does rule for 11 years.

Now.

If you just want to for the. Just for historical purposes Josiah.

Was a reformer. Okay, Jehoiakim was a tyrant.

This man right here persecuted the Prophet Jeremiah more than any other person. Any I mean he he Zedekiah knew he got thrown in a hole and all of that, but he persecuted Jeremiah. Horribly. This guy let homosexually run homosexuality run rampant in the temple Precincts.

He actually took the Word of God that was Condemned to him by the Prophet Jeremiah and some of you might remember this this Narrative he as he were ahead it read to him. He took his his knife. He cut it in pieces and he had the Word of God burned.

That was this guy here.

Zedekiah which would come after him. He was a weatherbane. He did whatever whatever. If Egypt's coming we can get help with Egypt.

We'll do this if Babylon's good we'll go with Babylon if the false prophets tell me to do this I'll do that. This guy would just did whatever. This is just a historical last actually last real two kings of.

Judah.

So the whole naming thing on those guys is what makes it confusing. Yes, what you need me to clarify don't you declare okay makes it hard to follow. Yeah. There is one guy that is in the middle here Joya Chen and it's not mentioned in what we're gonna talk about but he is in 597 when joya Kim dies.

There is. Let me see. I think it's in Jeremiah. In Jeremiah 36 it talks what what takes place about the burning of the him burning the scroll and the Word of God. There's a. There's a prophecy made to him by the Prophet Jeremiah from God.

He says because of what you have done you're gonna body's gonna be thrown over a wall. You're gonna be treated like a donkey you're gonna body's gonna rot in the in the sunlight during the day and your body's gonna have the frost on it at night as a Degradation to what you did to me and my prophet in your word.

You can read that whole thing if you want to. In Jeremiah 36, I just looked it up. You can go back and read it now. We don't have.

The.

Historical account of that prophecy being fulfilled in Scripture. Okay, but if you go to Josephus Josephus tells us that in 597 when They do the next deportation when Nebuchadnezzar comes in does it again he finds joy Kim.

He kills him. Throws his butt drags his body through the city behind a horse and a chariot and then throws him over the wall to rot. So we Josephus tells us that's that's how that prophecy was fulfilled and Josephus says That's how he even understood the prophecy being fulfilled from Jeremiah.

I think that's in If you want to write it down antiquities book 10 chapter 6 Section 3 I think pretty sure I know it's book 10 chapter 6. So I have I Confused y 'all enough with dates and times and we good we good.

Okay back to Chapter 1 verse 2 of Daniel says that never in verse 1 said Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came he besieged it the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand along with some of the vessels of the house of God and he brought them to the land Of Shinar.

Does anybody say Babylon where land of Shinar is in words? I'll say Shinar in your Bibles everybody's Bible say Shinar. That's the that is Babylon. Okay. To the house of his gods and he brought the vessels into the treasure of His God.

Would we just read in second Chronicles Tells us that Nebuchadnezzar came he hauled off Jehoiakim and he took the vessels. So that's why I say we know what took place here now. It doesn't say that this happened by chance does it?

Does it who gave Jehoiakim into Nebuchadnezzar's hand. The Lord did it the Lord did it. Why did the Lord do it?

Guy racist.

Why did the Lord do it? We've read part of that.

In the.

In the Kings passage didn't we said part of what Manasseh had done. Manasseh was Josiah's dad. Horrible. There's also. Because they were supposed to have left the ground fallow. Every seven years. Okay.

I remember the book the the book of Daniel is fits within a covenant context. The reason why the Lord gave Jehoiakim into their hands because God had promised because you did not let the ground lay fallow every seven years.

I'm going to send you off into captivity for 70 years to cover that 490 years that you didn't do that every seven years. They were supposed to do that and they didn't do that for 490 years. That is why God had sent prophet after prophet after prophet after prophet Covenant prosecutors to tell them you need to repent.

You've not doing what we're telling you to do. God even would send good Kings at times to come and to to try to lead them into reforms. Just like Josiah did. Josiah came along and led ABS. I mean just terrific reforms.

He pulled down the prostitute the male prostitute shrines within the temple complex. He pulled them down. He went out he burned the the false prophets bone. I mean he did all kinds of stuff. To help do that.

But as soon as Jeremiah died, I mean now Josiah died. What happened? They went right back off into whatever Idolatry they were doing because they weren't following God. They were following a man.

Okay.

So.

God does this for the reason of breaking his covenant continually they continually did it this will be the theme of Daniel throughout the book that the sovereign God of all creation is in the heavens and he does what he wants.

He does what he wants that don't sit well with some people. They don't sit well set times, but God Warned them and now he is saying I'm done with it I'm gonna give you the opportunity to repent and they did not and he says all right I'm gonna I'm gonna lay I'm gonna lay down the hammer and see if this will make them turn and it does not because we knew in 597 it happened again and in and after 597 they didn't repent.

What did he do? He finally said I I'm done with it. I'll knock the holy place down and that's exactly what he did. And we know that there's a God in heaven who raises up nations and he crushes nations.

That will be. Probably the secondary thing of the theme of the the book of Jeremiah you're gonna see kingdoms come and kingdoms goes a matter of fact even some of the visions that he gets. The Kingdoms come and kingdoms go kingdoms come kingdoms go and that's going to be the constant thing.

But there remember there's going to be one kingdom that will come and Jeremiah will prop. I mean Daniel prophesied this there will be a kingdom that will come that will never be destroyed and That's going to be the kingdom of Messiah.

And that's what we look forward to. So it says that the Lord gave Jehoiakim King of Judah into his hand along with some of the houses the vessels of the house of God. Why would he take some of the how the vessels from the house of God?

Why would he do that? What would be the reasoning? That's one. Okay, we'll say.

We'll say.

Restitution yeah back payment backpack. Why else would he do that? To show that his gods are better and bigger. And for those of you that were in First Samuel study you remember what happened when they put the Ark of the Covenant and think it was in first Samuel chapter 7.

You remember what happened? They took the Ark of the Covenant out there were hot fierce and Phineas and remember dirtbag wonder back to Took him out took him out there and they were going to use the Ark of the Covenant as some superstitious thing.

And it was going to save him. And what happened the Ark of the Covenant got taken and he got taken by Tended to the Philistines Temple where Dagon was at now. God took care of Dagon by cutting off his head in his hands and all that stuff and giving Them all hemorrhoids and all kinds of stuff.

Remember hopped around for nine months like a hot potato where the presence of God was hurting people. Well in this case They took the cups the menorahs the whatever that this is what they believe went.

And I would I think the the menorah Was one of the things that was taken and reason why I believe that is when we get to Belshazzar's feast it talks about a specific they were had the vessels in there and That had come from the house of God and they used the lampstand to light the party.

That's why I believe the menorah was part of that that went. So it was to show that Yahweh was now subservient.

To.

To Marduk Aku Bell all these others that's the point now. Is God subservient to anybody. No, we know this because God's the one who did this. God's the one who let his vessels that were Ordained for his purposes and for his uses to be taken to use for the the implements of his worship.

But if you go back and you look at Chronicles and Kings these implements were already being used for desecrated purposes. I mean these guys these Kings man were having parties of abominations with these things anyway.

So they haul them off to the house of their God and he brought the vessels Into the the treasury of his God. So that's where I would say. Yes, some of that is restitution. Back pay for what he what he wanted.

Now we get to verse 3 it says. And then the king ordered Ashkenaz the chief of his officials to bring Some of the sons of Israel including some of the royal family and the noble use in whom was no defect.

Okay, so Ashkenaz is the head of the eunuchs. Okay, anybody know what a eunuch is. Anyone any takers. He has been emasculated. Yeah now Before we go any further We have to say Was Daniel and his three buddies castrated.

There are many people that say no. I'm not that guy. I'm the guy that says they did if you can disagree with me. I'm fine with that and I have multiple reasons why I believe that they were One in. Think it's an Isaiah 29 The prophecy of what's going to happen when your people are hauled off when your young men are hauled off to Babylon.

They're going to be made eunuchs. Okay, they're they're gonna be made eunuchs. They're going to be emasculated. They're gonna be have their manhood taken. They're gonna be in the king's court now. Being in the king's court.

Put them near the Queen. That's why a lot of the reasons why they had them emasculated and it did not allow them once they had their manhood removed to run off into some type of sexual immorality with One of the prince princess prince is is not princess but princesses within the the king's court there is another reason that points to why I believe that Daniel was Emasculated is when he has the opportunity to go back to Jerusalem he doesn't go.

Some people say well, he was too old. Wait a minute. He was royalty. He could have had he could have had a royal procession from Cyrus to take him back. He refuses to go back and the reason why I believe he refused to go back and if you disagree with me I'm fine with that is because under the most mosaic legislation if you had been emasculated you could not go on the temple complex property.

So what good would it have done for him to go back? Zero now if you don't believe that's what he did and they were just they were just made eunuchs in the sense of They were just put into service by the king and you believe that that's fine.

Okay, but that's not the position that I hold and one we don't see anywhere where Daniel had children. We don't see anywhere where Daniel got married. Obviously the short little bit of time we see of his three buddies.

We don't see them getting married either.

But.

Any questions on that? Anyone anyone? Yes, sir.

Yeah.

Yeah, that part of that is in. Yeah, it's that it would. It would eliminate the seed of Heritage and nationalism. Yeah, you're right. You're not gonna have you're gonna have another Patriot arise out of his out of his loins.

So.

It says then words that where we at Said the king ordered Ashkenaz the king of the officials to bring Some of the sons of Israel and look at this including some of the royal family and the nobles, okay some believe that These were descendants of Hezekiah Because it was part of the royal family We certainly know it was part of Judah because Judah was the kingly the kingly family.

But hey, these weren't these weren't.

People.

That were slum these weren't poor people. He was taking very well-off men their youth into his custody is that including Some of the the use and whom was no defect and they were good-looking showing intelligence in every branch of wisdom.

Endowed with understanding and discernment knowledge and who had ability to serve the king's court. Meg's going where those guys at. These guys weren't ugly. They were without blemish. I can only imagine as they were going around.

Knocking on doors man. This would be the first time somebody with a crusty tooth Freckles a crazy, I Bad toenails, this is what they this was good for them because that means they ain't going. Think about it.

What does it say? No defect. Hey, I want you to understand this wasn't just walking up knocking on gonna go. Oh, that's a sharp-looking dude. That's a sharp-looking young man. I'm gonna take that guy with me.

That's not what happened. There was obviously an inspection that took place. Hey, it also talks about them being intelligent in every branch of wisdom.

Now.

This is I don't think at this point. This is talking about every branch of wisdom in a sense of the Chaldean because that hasn't happened yet. But these men would have already been trained in Hebrew culture and were very smart.

Daniel and history buddies were smart sharp-looking dudes. Young dudes though. I believe this is the age.

What's that.

These guys could fight real well.

This is how I think they were 13 to 16.

The Hebrew word there is you leave the choose there and it means young. Not a gnar which can mean up to 20 years old this means now that word you lead can go from anywhere from Infant up to Before the age of adulthood is what it is.

So do you have that wide range, but we know that they're old enough to have learned so that's why I put them in this category. Why would they want to take them this young though? Exactly. They're very manipulative think about how Young how young people are very easily Manipulated by older people that can come along groom them how they want do them how they want.

Hey, but not only are they grooming them the way that I want. They're taking them to a land. That is going to be Absolutely off the chain. I want you understand when you think about these these young men done boys.

Have you want to these teenagers being hauled off into captivity? Don't think of it as like. They're on the slave market. Got balls and chains put around their legs and hands and they're being hauled off into slavery.

That's not what's happening here. That's not what's happening. They're going to a place where you could take Las Vegas six flags over over Georgia and Disney World put them all together and that's where these kids are going.

They're going to have a blast. They're going to a place where the foods gonna be really good. The scenery is gonna be great. There's gonna be beautiful women any type of sensual pleasure you want. They can get and the Kings going to want them to do that.

That's the goal is to take them to remove them. Re-educate them then to get them to be confused at hey, man. This is what my culture did. This is what we want to do now. And then they can indulge in any kind of thing that they want and as Mike said once we they get them to do that.

They can get them to do whatever they want. They can get them to be loyal to King Nebuchadnezzar. Disagree agree. No making sense not making sense. Okay, it says and he ordered him to teach them the litter.

I'm sorry, let me back up verse. Yeah, the king appointed them a Daily ration of the Kings choice food from the wine which he drank and appointed them to be educated for three years. So look how long this education thing is going to take place.

We're talking about three years. Three years of them being educated. All right, they're going to be Educated for three years at the end of that three years. They would enter into the Kings personal service now among them were Judah of the sons of Judah were Daniel Hananiah Mishael and Azariah.

The commander of the officials assigned them new names and we have got to move quickly if I'm gonna get through these names. Means judge L means God. God Elohim, right? What does it check? What does it say?

It changes his name, too. How we spell it? I can't spell.

Bell is it Belta? Is that right? No would have been.

Bail.

Or bail that means Prince.

So they've taken Judge of God or judged by God. They have changed his name to a Babylonian pagan name.

Prince of Bale, right? What was the next kid's name? Hananiah? Yeah, this is short for Yah Yahweh.

Anybody remember where we've seen Hannah before in Scripture?

Praying for a son.

Samuel's Samuel's mom grace.

Gracious gift from Yahweh is what his name was to be.

What did they change his name to. Who was the moon. God that's where this comes from ah.

Shorak Shorad Howard shrewd somebody. If you have some somebody else may have in your study Bible maze be spelled as you are. Du that means to commands. This is now to be commanded by a coup a Babylonian moon.

God, okay.

What was the next kid's name. What does L mean?

Oh.

This will be heard by God. Shut some ah shot. Remember that where we get that from Deuteronomy. What. Okay, that's it. Heard by God that would be them. That would be his name. Okay. What was his Babylonian name?

Aku. Now heard by who.

Aku.

You see what they're doing. They're taking their names these these Hebrew names and they're tweaking them to make them more Babylonian. Last dude's name.

It was what Azariah.

What does I mean, what was that point, you know the Yahweh, right? Anybody remember what a czar means where we remember where we've seen that in Scripture before. Anyway, I think in the garden guys. He's gonna make a help mate for Adam right.

A Zaire connecto symbols by a Zaire connecto my My Yahweh, that's what that means. What do they do here?

Hey bed now means servant of Nebo.

Babylonian God you see what they've done. Taking every one of them Jewish boys name and they changed it to mean something Babylonian to not only are they Removing them from their home place, right? They're re-educating them and now they've renamed them.

You see what they're doing to these men. Young men. They're wanting to make them Babylonian servants and Like I said, they don't think they're being hauled off to Alcatraz. I mean these these young boys are going to Vegas and They're going to be able to have any type of food that they want any type of desire their hearts can want any type of.

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Entertainment and. Another reason why you don't something you don't see them introduced to. I believe that they were castrated. There's one thing you don't see them involved in you don't see them involved in any type of sexual.

The Meaning of the New Names and the Pressure to Assimilate

Okay, any questions comments outbursts of anger rights or demonstrations. We got 30 seconds.

Anyone.

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Enlightenment. Yeah, that's yeah, they're of enlightenment. That's how I would understand it. Yeah.

Yeah Yeah.

They were selected the first people they were selected as but Specifically went to the nobles and the royal family member. Man. The king don't want ugly people in his court. I mean just think about David.

He didn't marry no ugly chicks. I mean David always had pretty women just like Courts not gonna want an ugly person. If you remember even with Nehemiah Nehemiah could even come in with a Haggard face.