What does history say about the Bible book of Daniel ? - Conclusion

 Daniel wrote:  King Belshazzar offered to have Daniel "rule as the third one in the kingdom" of Babylon. -DANIEL 5:1, 13-16.

What history reveals: A man named Nabonidus was king during the events recorded in Daniel chapter 5. However, Nabonidus spent much of his reign, not in Babylon, but in Arabia. Who ruled in Babylon while he was absent? "A cuneiform record states that Nabonidus entrusted the kingship to his eldest son, i.e. to Belshazzar," explained historian Raymond Philip Dougherty in his book Nabonidus and Belshazzar.  "Belshazzar performed royal functions in the name of the absent monarch, his father." Because Nabonidus and Belshazzar offered Daniel the third position. 

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