¹⁸ “Some of your descendants – who come from you, whom you father – will be taken away,^(A) and they will become eunuchs^[a] in the palace of the king of Babylon.” ’^(B)

¹⁵ Nebuchadnezzar deported Jehoiachin to Babylon. He took the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.^(A)

⁷ “Some of your descendants – who come from you, whom you father – will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” ’

⁹ God had granted Daniel kindness and compassion from the chief eunuch,^(A)