Who was Nebracanizer?
Contrary to popular belief, "Nebracanizer" isn't a "who" but a "what."
Toward the end of Daniel's long career keeping foreign kings out of trouble (or not; see: Belshazzar), the administrators under King Darius had had enough. Daniel was so honest, and Darius held him up as such an example, the other governors found it impossible to get down to the business of stealing from the poor, taking bribes for building contracts, and skinny dipping in the Euphrates.
They conspired against Daniel. They got Darius to affirm a decree that the people of all the land should worship only Darius for thirty days, and whomever was found worshiping another was to be put in the lion's den. Daniel, of course, wasn't going to even. The administrators charged him with breaking the law of the Medes and Persians, and Darius had no choice but to rule that Daniel had to spend the night with the lions.
Darius wasn't too worried, however. Although Daniel had a habit of seriously overreacting to visions (Daniel 7:15, 28; 8:17, 27; 10:2-3, 10-11, 15-17), he had a way with animals such that the lions would never attack him. But Darius also knew that Daniel was horribly allergic to cats. When the guards seized Daniel, they checked his pockets for weapons. Mistaking his inhaler for pepper spray, they confiscated it. That's why Darius cried out the next morning, "Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue you from the lions?" (Daniel 6:20). He wanted to know if God had provided him with a rescue inhaler.
God had done one better. While Daniel was using a bit of mirror he'd found to create a light for the cats to chase (whenever Daniel sneezed and the light jerked, the lions jumped straight into the air), Gabriel arrived. After waiting for Daniel to reawaken from a dead faint, Gabriel gave him the plans for a nebulizer he could make with the sash of his robe, three small rocks, and one-and-a-half empty pizza boxes. Daniel did so and survived the night fine.
When Daniel was released the next morning, and told Darius what had happened, Darius was elated. "You could market that. Maybe you could name it after your favorite king!" he suggested with a wink.
Daniel, disgusted that Darius had been so easily manipulated, said, "I think I will," and named it after his first boss, Nebuchadnezzar.
Toward the end of Daniel's long career keeping foreign kings out of trouble (or not; see: Belshazzar), the administrators under King Darius had had enough. Daniel was so honest, and Darius held him up as such an example, the other governors found it impossible to get down to the business of stealing from the poor, taking bribes for building contracts, and skinny dipping in the Euphrates.
They conspired against Daniel. They got Darius to affirm a decree that the people of all the land should worship only Darius for thirty days, and whomever was found worshiping another was to be put in the lion's den. Daniel, of course, wasn't going to even. The administrators charged him with breaking the law of the Medes and Persians, and Darius had no choice but to rule that Daniel had to spend the night with the lions.
Darius wasn't too worried, however. Although Daniel had a habit of seriously overreacting to visions (Daniel 7:15, 28; 8:17, 27; 10:2-3, 10-11, 15-17), he had a way with animals such that the lions would never attack him. But Darius also knew that Daniel was horribly allergic to cats. When the guards seized Daniel, they checked his pockets for weapons. Mistaking his inhaler for pepper spray, they confiscated it. That's why Darius cried out the next morning, "Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue you from the lions?" (Daniel 6:20). He wanted to know if God had provided him with a rescue inhaler.
God had done one better. While Daniel was using a bit of mirror he'd found to create a light for the cats to chase (whenever Daniel sneezed and the light jerked, the lions jumped straight into the air), Gabriel arrived. After waiting for Daniel to reawaken from a dead faint, Gabriel gave him the plans for a nebulizer he could make with the sash of his robe, three small rocks, and one-and-a-half empty pizza boxes. Daniel did so and survived the night fine.
When Daniel was released the next morning, and told Darius what had happened, Darius was elated. "You could market that. Maybe you could name it after your favorite king!" he suggested with a wink.
Daniel, disgusted that Darius had been so easily manipulated, said, "I think I will," and named it after his first boss, Nebuchadnezzar.
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