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Of fire and lions: a novel

✍ Scribed by Mesu Andrews


Publisher
The Crown Publishing Group; WaterBrook
Year
2019
Tongue
en-US
Weight
287 KB
Edition
2019--First edition
Category
Fiction
City
New York
ISBN
073529187X

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


The Old Testament book of Daniel comes to life in this novel for readers of Lynn Austin's Chronicles of the Kings series or Francine Rivers' Mark of the Lion series.
Survival. A Hebrew girl first tasted it when she escaped death nearly seventy years ago as the Babylonians ransacked Jerusalem and took their finest as captives. She thought she'd perfected in the many years amongst the Magoi and the idol worshippers, pretending with all the others in King Nebuchadnezzar's court. Now, as Daniel's wife and a septuagenarian matriarch, Belili thinks she's safe and she can live out her days in Babylon without fear--until the night Daniel is escorted to Belshazzar's palace to interpret mysterious handwriting on a wall. The Persian Army invades, and Bellili's tightly-wound secrets unfurl with the arrival of the conquering army. What will the reign of Darius mean for Daniel, a man who prays to Yahweh alone?
Β Β Β Β  Ultimately, Yahweh's...

✦ Subjects


Good and evil -- Fiction


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