The timing was strategically ordained and orchestrated by God when Daniel and the Hebrew Boys; Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were taken into exile into Babylon against their will. God will allow any type of bad intention to outweigh any good intention, to get anybody's ATTENTION, immediately. Just as God allowed His Son, our Redeemer, Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ to be led by His Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil, He allowed Jerusalem to get besieged by King Nebuchadnezzar. This exiled annihilation done by King Nebuchadnezzar was prophesied to happen decades prior of happening by the Prophet Isaiah due to King Hezekiah was wretched and rebellion and showing off his possessions in the palace to the messengers sent to him by the Babylonian King, Merodach Baladen. (2 Kings 20:12-18)