Daniel taken to Babylon; the first deportation
In Jehoiakim's third year Nebuchadnezzar came against Jerusalem, and Daniel and his companions were carried to Babylon and trained in the king's court (Daniel 1:1-6). The AiG chart marks Daniel's taking at the start of the seventy-year captivity reckoning, 607 BC.
1In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god. 3Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his court officials, to bring in some Israelites from the royal family and the nobility—