What was the range or precisely the ages of Daniel and his three Hebrew friends?
Daniel 1:1 - 21
ESV - 1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, 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 placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.
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Asked March 16 2019
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DAVID G MOMOH
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Helmut Fischl
The Bible does not specify the ages of the 4 Hebrew boys, but judging by the amount of knowledge they already had (Dan 1:4) they were probably between 18 and 20 years of age when they arrived in Babylon.
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