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Daniel 1:1 NASB95

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

There were three different deportations of the Jews;

The first occured in 606 or 605 B.C and included Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.

The second occured in 597 and included the prophet Ezekiel along with 10,000 Jews.

The third and most sever occured in 586 B.C. and included most of the remaining Jews. Only the poorest were left.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), Da 1:6.

This occurred in 606 BC. (Usher)

(See Barnes Notes)

Jehoiakim, King at the time of the first deportation was a bad king. Jehoiakim ruled from 609 to 598. The third year would be 606 B.C.

The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament: This is important because it provides evidence that Daniel was written prior to the events that he documents.

Septuagint was started prior to 285 B.C. It is not certain as to the order that the various books were translated or if the initial work was the Torah alone of if the project was intended to translate the Torah, Psalms and the writings. However, it seems likely that the intention was to translate the entire Old Testament.

Brenton Septuagint

In later days the strictly orthodox Rabbis of the Pharisaic school bitterly regretted this translation, and declared that it was “as great a calamity as the making of the golden calf.” This was because some of its renderings were rather paraphrases than translations, and were of such a character as to be a great aid to the Hellenizing Jews in their efforts to introduce the new learning and to overthrow the so-called orthodox teaching.

H. A. Ironside, The Four Hundred Silent Years (from Malachi to Matthew) (New York: Loizeaux Brothers, 1914), 24.