Daniel and his three friends were captives in the land of Babylon and they were selected to attend a royal school. For three years they had been learning how to serve the king of Babylon. They became the best students in the whole class and so they got the best jobs in the king’s palace.

In fact Daniel did so well that the king planned to make him his prime minister, the most important man in the whole country, next to the king himself.

But other important people in the land became jealous of Daniel.

“We have to stop this man,” they said among themselves.

“We’ll be watching Daniel and as soon as he does something wrong, we’ll tell the king.”