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 Daniel
| In chapter one, Daniel is one of many deported into exile in Babylon. Who was the man set over Daniel by Ashpenaz, the Babylonian prince of the eunuchs? | The Dandy Story of Daniel
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Melzar. Melzar risked his life in cooperating with Daniel and his friends. The other three are the Hebrew names of Daniel's famous friends Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
| In chapter two, we find the first dream that Daniel interprets. What was the image of this dream composed of? | The Dandy Story of Daniel
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Gold, silver, brass, iron and clay. This dream represented four worldwide kingdoms: the Babylonians, the Medes and Persians, the Greeks, and finally the Romans.
| In chapter three, Daniel's three friends ran into a little trouble. What did King Nebuchadnezzar say after he saw that the fiery furnace had no effect on Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego? | The Dandy Story of Daniel
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Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Nebuchadnezzar said he saw four men loose in the fire, and he said the fourth was like the Son of God. His command to heat the furnace seven times hotter than usual came BEFORE they were cast into the furnace; he was angry that they refused to respond to his threats!
| In chapter six the Persian leader Darius is in charge. Daniel broke a new law that caused him to be thrown in the den of lions. What law did he break? | The Dandy Story of Daniel
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Asking a petition of any God or man except the king. When the king heard what Daniel was charged with, he was displeased with himself, for making the law.
a bull with eyes as lamps of fire. The fourth beast was described as dreadful and terrible with iron teeth and ten horns. There are many interesting ideas about its significance in prophecy.
Daniel's Seventy Weeks. With this prophesy, many believe that the Magi in the Christmas story were able to approximate the date of the Messiah's birth, and pinpoint the year of his death.
three full weeks. This was the time it took for Michael to deliver the answer to his prayer.
Cyrus. Daniel became an important leader in two world empires. Not bad for a Hebrew slave.
| Beginning in Daniel chapter one, while Jehoikim was king of Judah, who started a battle with Jerusalem and took captives? | Dare To Be A Daniel
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Nebuchadnezzar. In Daniel 1:1, Jehoikim had reigned three years as king of Judah when Nebuchadnezzar went to battle with the city and took captives. When Nebuchadnezzar took the people of Jerusalem captive, Daniel was in the first group of men taken to Babylon.
| In Daniel chapter one, the new king gave the captives of Jerusalem Babylonian names. What became Daniel's new name while living in Babylon? | Dare To Be A Daniel
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Belteshazzar. In Daniel 1:7, Daniel's Babylonian name became Belteshazzar while his three close friends became Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Daniel and his three friends were put into a group of men that would be trained because of their wisdom, physical appearance, and regality.
| According to Daniel chapter one, how many days did Daniel want Melzar to feed him vegetables and water? | Dare To Be A Daniel
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Ten days. In Daniel 1:8, the king wanted all the slaves to be fed meat and wine to build up their bodies. Daniel knew the meat and wine would first be offered to a pagan god and declined the food. Instead, Daniel asked the king's steward (who carried the title of Melzar) to feed him, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego vegetables and water for ten days. After the ten days, Melzar could test Daniel and his friends against the men that ate meat and drank wine to see who looked better. At the end of the ten days, the king saw that Daniel and his friends looked healthier than men that were fed meat and wine. For the next three years of training, Daniel and his friends were fed the continuous diet of vegetables and water.
| How much stronger did the new king find Daniel than any other of his magicians and astrologers at the end of Daniel chapter one? | Dare To Be A Daniel
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Ten times. In Daniel 1:20, at the end of the three years when Daniel and his friends had gone through their training, Nebuchadnezzar brought all the men together and spoke with each one individually. After he was finished interviewing each man, the king found Daniel and his friends to be ten times stronger than all of his magicians and astrologers put together.
| In Daniel chapter two, why weren't any of the king's astrologers able to interpret the king's dream? | Dare To Be A Daniel
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The king couldn't tell them what he dreamed. In Daniel 2:1-4, two years after Nebuchadnezzar took captives from Jerusalem, he began having dreams. The dreams were so bad that he couldn't sleep, so he called his astrologers for help in interpreting the dream. There was only one problem. The astrologers couldn't interpret the dream because Nebuchadnezzar couldn't remember what he had dreamed. Because the astrologers couldn't tell Nebuchadnezzar what he had dreamed or what it meant, the king vowed to have them killed.
| Was Daniel able to tell the king what the dream meant, according to Daniel chapter two? | Dare To Be A Daniel
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Yes. In Daniel 1:16, Daniel was able to tell Nebuchadnezzar what his dream was because God had given him that gift upon being taken captive. Daniel was able to tell the king that his dream was of a great image with four different body parts that represented four different world powers.
Babylon represented the head of gold.
Medes-Persia represented the breast and arms of silver.
Greece represented the belly and thighs of brass.
Rome represented the legs of iron.
Because Daniel interpreted the king's dream he was made chief of governors over Babylon, and his friends were made heads of the provinces' affairs.
| In Daniel chapter five, what did Daniel NOT get for interpreting some handwriting that was on the wall during a feast for the new king of Babylon? | Dare To Be A Daniel
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A wife of his choosing. In Daniel 5:7, after Nebuchadnezzar passed away, his son, Belshazzar, became the new king. One night, during a party that Belshazzar threw, God wrote a message on the wall in the party room. Belshazzar had heard of Daniel's interpreting and sent for him. Daniel told King Belshazzar that the writing on the wall told of his destruction by the Medes and the Persians. For his interpretation, Daniel was given a scarlet robe, a gold necklace, and was made third ruler of the kingdom. That same night, Belshazzar was killed.
| According to Daniel chapter six, Darius made a decree that all Babylon should bow down only to him. How long was Darius' decree to last? | Dare To Be A Daniel
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One month. In Daniel 6:7, after Belshazzar was killed by the Medes and Persians, Darius took over the ruling of Babylon. Darius took a liking to Daniel and Daniel did his best to obey the king. When some of Darius' men saw how their king doted on Daniel, they looked for ways to make Daniel suffer. When they couldn't find anything wrong with his loyalty to the king, they went after his God. Darius' men had King Darius make a decree that no one could bow down to or pray to anyone else but King Darius. Darius signed the decree. That same day, Darius' men saw Daniel enter his room and pray to his God in front of a window. The men told Darius what they saw and Daniel was thrown into the lions' den as punishment.
The lions' den carried the inscription 'The place of execution where men who angered the king die, torn by wild beasts'. The next morning, Darius went to the lion's den to check on Daniel. Daniel spoke to him and told him that he was safe. Darius had Daniel taken out of the lions' den and the men that accused Daniel were thrown in along with their families.
| According to Daniel chapter eight, what vision did Daniel have that made him physically ill for a few days? | Dare To Be A Daniel
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Ram and goat. In Daniel 8:27, the vision of the ram and the goat was a representation of the fight between the Medes-Persians and Greece. The goat was Greece and the ram was the Medes-Persians. Daniel saw the fight between the one-horned goat and the two-horned ram. In his vision, he saw the two-horned ram destroy the one-horned goat, meaning that the Medes-Persians would defeat Greece.
| Whose scroll was Daniel reading when he learned of the destruction of Jerusalem in Daniel chapter nine? | Dare To Be A Daniel
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Jeremiah. In Daniel 9:2, when Daniel was looking through the scrolls written by the prophet Jeremiah, he found a passage that predicted the destruction of Jerusalem in seventy weeks. After the destruction, Daniel and the other captives would be released.
| In Daniel chapter nine, whom did God send to help Daniel understand the destruction that was going to happen to Jerusalem? | Dare To Be A Daniel
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Gabriel. In Daniel 9:21, while Daniel was reading the scrolls of Jeremiah which spoke of Jerusalem's destruction, God sent the angel Gabriel to help him understand the seventy-week destruction.
| Where was Daniel when he had the vision of an unidentified man in Daniel chapter ten? | Dare To Be A Daniel
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Hiddekel (Tigris River). In Daniel 10:4, after Gabriel left Daniel with the knowledge of the seventy week destruction of Jerusalem, Daniel went into mourning for his people. For three weeks, he ate nothing but bread and drank nothing but water. On the twenty-fourth day, Daniel was down by the river Hiddekel (known today as the Tigris River) when he saw a man. His guards were with him at the time, but they didn't see the vision Daniel saw. Daniel fell to his knees and was helped to his feet by the man. The man went on to tell Daniel that Persia and Greece would fight against each other as well as the kingdoms of Syria and Egypt. During this time, a horrible man would take control and pit countries against each other, but in the end he would destroy himself.
| In Daniel's vision of the four kings (described in chapter eleven), which king would lose everything? | Dare To Be A Daniel
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King of the North. In Daniel 11:6, the vision Daniel had was of four kings. The king of the North would become strong and then be overthrown. The King of the South was Egypt and the King of the North was Syria. Both sides would go to battle, but in the end the King of the South would rise up and destroy the King of the North.
| According to Daniel 12, who was known as the great prince that stood up for Daniel's people? | Dare To Be A Daniel
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Michael. In Daniel 12:1, Michael was the protector of the Jewish people. He told Daniel that those people whose names were written in the Lamb's Book of Life would be saved from the tribulation.
| King Nebuchadnezzar ordered that young Israelite men be brought to him to serve in his court. What qualities did he wish these young men to posess? | The book of Daniel : Chapter 1
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all of the above (no physical defects, suitable for instruction in all wisdom, knowledgeable). King Nebuchadnezzar wanted men from the royal family and from the nobility who were capable of serving in his palace (1:4).
Chaldean. Verse 4 says that the King wanted the men to be educated in the Chaldean language and literature (1:4).
Belteshazzar. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were Daniel's friends who were also chosen to serve the King (1:7).
They looked better and healthier than all the other young men who ate the king's food. This account is in Daniel 1:15. Daniel was trying to obey the Jewish restrictions on clean and unclean food.
Daniel. God gave Daniel the gift of understanding dreams and visions (1:17).
Hananiah. Verse 7. The chief official changed their names.
vegetarian. In verse 12 Daniel said, "Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink." (This is according to the translation in the Holman Christian Standard Bible.)
3 years. Verse 5 says that the men were to be trained for 3 years.
King Cyrus. Found in verse 21. The date for the first year of King Cyrus is 539 B.C.
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