Daniel Flashcards
What does Daniel mean?
God is my judge
When was Daniel captured and brought to Babylon?
606 BC
What scriptures was Daniel made a eunuch in?
Isaiah 39:7 and Daniel 1:3
What were Daniel’s two names?
Daniel and Belteshazzar
Chapter 1
Introduction with three nobles Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego taken into captivity. Daniel outlives the captivity: Daniel 1:1 (606 BC) to Daniel 1:21 (536 BC) Daniel served Babylonian and Medo-Persian Empires till 534 BC (Daniel 10:3)
Chapter 2
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and Daniel’s vision about the four Kingdoms: the Babylonian Empire, the Medo-Persian Empire, Alexander the Great’s Empire and the Roman Empire. The Rock (Christ) forms a mountain (the Kingdom of God) that “fills the whole earth”)
Chapter 3
Nebuchadnezzar sets up image of gold 90 feet tall of himself. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are cast into the furnace for refusing worship. They survive and Nebuchadnezzare calls on his subjects to never say anything against the true God.
Chapter 4
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of a great tree. God humbles him, but when he glorifies God, the Lord “restores” Nebuchadnezzar to his throne.
Chapter 5
Belshazzar, probably the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, sees the handwriting on the wall; then that night is murdered. Darius the Mede becomes King.
Chapter 6
Daniel in the lion’s den
Chapter 7-12
More visions of the four great empires and the end times