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He pointed to a star-shaped cluster of wedges meaning king. \u201cThis is shar.\u201d Then to another more complex pattern. \u201cThis is B\u0101bili\u2014 Babylon.\u201d To Daniel, the cuneiform marks looked like a flock of birds had trampled on wet clay. Each sign could mean a word or a syllable or even an idea, a system vastly more complex than their flowing Hebrew alphabet or Aramaic blocky letters.<\/p>\n

He prayed that their current multilingual knowledge would help when adding another to their skills. He squinted at the tablet, his mind racing to decode the wedges. He recognized patterns from Aramaic loanwords. He asked, \u201cHow do you know if sar\u2014I mean shar\u2014means king or prince?\u201d \u201cContext, boy,\u201d scolded the irritable instructor. \u201cYou learn by memory and practice.\u201d Azariah seemed determined through sheer willpower to keep up with his brother\u2019s skill.<\/p>\n

Hananiah recognized and recited words with uncanny speed. \u201cShar. B\u0101bili. Rabu.\u201d Daniel felt good for his shy, troubled friend. It seemed whatever annoyance the instructor had for Hananiah\u2019s strange social inadequacy was made up for by the boy\u2019s amazing language ability. Mouth agape, Nabu- aplu-iddina exclaimed, \u201cYou have the memory of Nabu.\u201d \u201cYahweh,\u201d corrected Hananiah without pause. Meanwhile, Mishael was lost. He whispered angrily to Daniel, \u201cThese are just scratches. I want to throw this thing at the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

The instructor retorted from behind him, \u201cThe path of anger does not arrive at the destination of wisdom.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m sorry, master,\u201d Mishael murmured. As the lesson dragged on, Hananiah\u2019s brilliance shone. But his rigid focus frustrated Nabu-aplu-iddina, who demanded flexibility. Azariah helped by translating the instructor\u2019s brusque commands into gentle cues, but his own work suffered as a result. Daniel could see that Mishael\u2019s clumsy attempts were an increasing agitation to the instructor, whose subtle digs at him became more obvious.<\/p>\n

And Daniel wasn\u2019t confident of his own ability to keep up with the pace that the instructor was setting. The warning made by Ashpenaz hung over all their heads like a dark shadow of fear. Failure to become a scribe would result in being made a eunuch in the palace. Daniel grappled with more than linguistics. Akkadian was the language of their captors, the voice of Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s decrees, the script of the forbidden wisdom they were about to learn.<\/p>\n

Every word felt like a betrayal of Daniel\u2019s upbringing. But Jeremiah\u2019s words echoed in his mind. Serve the king of Babylon and you will live. They were here to survive. To preserve their people amid exile. Or die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.<\/p>\n

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Daniel: Exile in Babylon Part 1 of the Daniel Trilogy Chronicles of the Watchers Book 6 1st Edition a Copyright \u00a9 2026 Brian Godawa All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without prior written permission except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews.<\/p>\n

Warrior Poet Publishing www.warriorpoetpublishing.com ISBN: 978-1-963000-90-0 (paperback) ISBN: 978-1-963000-94-8 (hardcover) ISBN: 978-1-963000-94-8 (eBook) ISBN: 978-1-963000-95-5 (Large Print) Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001. Excerpts from the Enuma Elish taken from William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, The Context of Scripture (Leiden; New York: Brill, 1997\u2013), 391-403.<\/p>\n

OceanofPDF.com Get a Free eBooklet about the Gods Referred to in This Novel. Limited Time Offer FREE Marduk, Ishtar, Nabu, and others vie for power in their territory allotted to them by Yahweh. Sadly, many ancient Jews had been deceived into worshipping the gods of Babylon during Daniel\u2019s life. Learn about these pagan opponents of Yahweh. https:\/\/godawa.com\/free-gods-of-babylon\/ OceanofPDF.com DEDICATION This novel trilogy is dedicated to the memory of Assyriologist D.J.<\/p>\n

Wiseman. OceanofPDF.com Before You Read This Novel, Get the Picture Book of Its Characters for Visual Reference Includes Characters from The Novel Trilogy of Daniel! Full-color picture booklet includes exotic characters and creatures from the novel trilogy so the reader can visualize them as they read. These full-color pictures will boost your imagination as you read the novels. COMING Late 2026: (in Paper or Ebook) Until then, see the characters online: https:\/\/godawa.com\/cast-of-character\/daniel\/ OceanofPDF.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To Yahweh: My Everything.<\/p>\n

To Kimberly: My Every Woman. To Jeanette: My Editorial Magus. OceanofPDF.com NOTE TO THE READER The Daniel trilogy is a standalone novel set. But it is also part of the Chronicles of the Watchers series whose books all share what late biblical scholar Michael S. Heiser has called \u201cthe Deuteronomy 32 worldview\u201d[1] and what I call \u201cthe Watcher paradigm.\u201d<\/p>\n

For purposes of clarity, I will lay it out here in brief summary. For more detailed biblical support and explanation, I recommend reading my booklet, Psalm 82: The Divine Council of the Gods, the Judgment of the Watchers, and the Inheritance of the Nations (affiliate link). It is the foundation of all three of my novel series: Chronicles of the Nephilim, Chronicles of the Watchers, and Chronicles of the Apocalypse.<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 32 is well-known as the Song of Moses. In it, Moses sings of Israel\u2019s story and how she had come to be God\u2019s chosen nation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.<\/em><\/p>\n

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