Pop culture note: The saga of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego was immortalized (not that it wasn't already immortal) in the Veggie Tales episode 'Rack, Shack, and Benny,' in which Nebuchadnezzar (a cucumber-or maybe a pickle?) tries to make everyone worship a giant chocolate bunny. Ultimately, Daniel is able to stick to his guns-by avoiding un-Kosher Babylonian cuisine, for example-and proves to be of use to the king by helping interpret his dreams, like the one involving a particularly scary statue that symbolizes different world empires.ĭaniel's friends are able to demonstrate their own faithfulness to God by surviving when Nebuchadnezzar throws them into a fiery furnace (nice going, Neb).

Daniel and his friends-Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego-have to navigate between the demands Nebuchadnezzar is putting on them and their own religious principles. He ends up taking back the cream of the crop, the most elite and noble Israelites, to serve at his court in Babylon.

The book of Daniel begins with King Nebuchadnezzar, the ruler of Babylon, ransacking Jerusalem.

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