Even while in exile, Daniel fully intended to keep on following the Lord. He would not give up his God just because his circumstances had changed.
BibleGateway: Daniel 1:1-16 ESV Text: Daniel 1:1-16 Daniel 1:1–16 (Listen) Daniel Taken to Babylon 1:1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of…