But the people, sons of Babylon, Borsippa, Nippur, Ur, Erech and Larsa, both priests and people of the chief cities of Babylonia sinned against his great god-head. They created disturbance ...

Daniel reads it as: “God has numbered the days of your kingdom ... [it] is given to the Medes and Persians.” Daniel’s prediction did come to pass: In 539 B.C., Babylon fell to the Persian ...

Love of God is with the exiles in Babylon, but no longer the laws under which they lived. That basic opposition does not seem to be working as well in this new situation, but there is an attempt ...