PRAYER + FASTING at the University of Babylon

In the days of Nebuchadnezzar and Israel’s exile to Babylon, four Jewish teenagers, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, are brought into Nebuchadnezzar’s school of leadership to be trained in the language and literature of Babylon. Part of the training was a daily regiment of the king’s choice foods. What was Nebuchadnezzar’s objective in taking a handful of young leaders from a slave nation and giving them a full ride to Babylon’s “Ivy League” university, including room and board in the king’s palace and dining hall?