RANIERA IN THE RAIONA DEN Raniera was a humble, hard-working, tane from Israel. He loved Ihowā and had a very strong faith and belief in him. Raniera was captured when Jerusalem was defeated by the Babylonians. Darius was the new kingi of Babylon. He picked 120 of the very best iwi in his kingdom to help him rule. He then picked toru tāne to be in charge of these 120. The kingi liked Raniera because he was very clever and made Raniera one of these governors – he also had a kōrero about putting Raniera in charge of his entire kingdom. The other tāne didn’t like that Raniera had been put in charge because he was a captive from Israel and not a Persian like them. They decided to find something Raniera did wrong to get him into trouble with the kingi. But, Raniera was very hard working and no matter how they tried, these tāne couldn’t find anything kino about Raniera. Raniera honoured the kingi in all he did, and he did everything the very best he could. The tāne knew that nothing would stop Raniera from praying to Ihowā every day so they decided to get the Kingi to pass a new law. The law stated that “for toru tekau days no tane, wahine or tamaiti is to pray to any atua or man except Kingi Darius. If anybody disobeys this law, they will be thrown into a den of hungry raiona.”
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