CHAPTER I. [WRITTEN IN HEBREW].

[Sidenote: B.C. 606.]

1. In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.

--This siege took place in B.C. 606. Verse 5 says that Daniel and the royal captives received 3 years' training and verse 18 shows that at the end of 3 years they graduated. This brings us to the year B.C. 603 which