Daniel

Daniel 1:2-4 – when Jerusalem is besieged, Nebuchadnezzar takes the best of the best kids/young people back to Babylon to teach them the Babylonian ways.

Daniel 1:6 – Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah – the Hebrew names of four of them .

Daniel 1:7 – Now Belteshazzar, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Daniel 1:8-14 – Daniel and his three friends didn’t want the king’s fine meat and wine, but the guy in charge was afraid they wouldn’t look as nice as the others, so they gave it a trial run.

Daniel 1:1516 – they won that one – the four looked better than all the rest.

Daniel 1:17 – God gave them knowledge and wisdom – Daniel understood visions and dreams.

Daniel 1:19-20 – the king communed with them and found them the best and they got in high places with the king.

Daniel 2:17-18 – Daniel and his friends asked God to show Daniel the meaning of the king’s dream so they would not be killed.

Daniel 2:19-23 – God revealed it to Daniel and he praised God.

Daniel 2:27-28 – Men can do nothing but God can do everything.

Daniel 2:31-45 – the vision of the king explained *Look it up in more detail; it is an interesting study – Look up “the dream of Nebuchadnezzar powerpoint” and click on the first link that has [ppt] in front of it and says Daniel Chapter 2 – Bible Study Resource Center*

Daniel 2:47-49 – the king praises “Daniel’s” God and sets him in a place of high power – so were his friends once Daniel requested it.

Daniel 3:1-6 – the king made a large statue and gets together all the important officials and orders them to bow down and worship it when they hear the music.

Daniel 3:12 – Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego didn’t.

Daniel 3:15-18 – the king gives them a second chance: bow down and worship, or die.  The three tell him then and there that no way would they do that.  God would protect them.

Daniel 3:19-22 – Nebuchadnezzar was furious and ordered the furnace seven times hotter than normal, bound the three guys, and cast them into the furnace.  The guards throwing them in died from the heat.

Daniel 3:23-27 – They see FOUR people inside the furnace – walking around.  The three guys and “the fourth is like the Son of God.”  So the king called them out and they didn’t even smell of smoke.

Daniel 3:28-29 – the king turns to God and threatens whoever speaks against Him.

Daniel 3:30 – Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego are promoted yet again.

Daniel 4:3 – praises to God

Daniel 4:25-26 – the king has another dream and this is the meaning.

Daniel 4:30-37 – what happens to the prideful king and how he turns to God and is restored.

Daniel 5:4-8 – the new king, Nebby’s son Belshazzar, and his important people drink wine and worship false gods so there is something written on the wall by a hand and no one can figure it out.

Daniel 5:10-16 – the queen tells the king of Daniel and his abilities so Daniel is called in

Daniel 5:17-28 – Daniel explains the writing on the wall

Daniel 5:30 – that night the kind was slain.

Daniel 6:1-2 – the new king, Darius, set Daniel really in charge.

Daniel 6:3-4 – Daniel was preferred “because an excellent spirit was in him,” but jealous guys tried to find error in him but they could never find error or fault in him.

Daniel 6:7 – they get the king to make a decree that people can only pray to him for thirty days or be thrown in the lions’ den.

Daniel 6:10-11 – Daniel knows about the law but he goes right up to his room to pray to God like always – FAITHFUL.  The guys catch him.

Daniel 6:13-14 – they told the king and he was displeased with himself.

Daniel 6:16-17 – Daniel was sealed into the lions’ den.

Daniel 6:18 – that night the king fasted.

Daniel 6:19-20 – the king hurried to see if Daniel was ok

Daniel 6:22-23 – Daniel tells him “My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths.”  The king was happy and they brought Daniel out safe “because he believed in his God.”

Daniel 6:24 – the king cast the jealous guys, their wives and their kids into the lions’ den and all their bones were broken into pieces.

Daniel 6:26-27 – great verses about God’s power

Daniel 7:1-28 – Daniel’s vision

Daniel 7:9-10 – awesome in power

Daniel 7:13-14 – the Son of man

Daniel 8:1-27 – another vision

Daniel 8:16 – mention of Gabriel

Daniel 8:17-18 – Gabriel comes over to Daniels

Daniel 8:27 – Daniel fainted and was sick certain days, ad astonished at the vision, but none understood it.

Daniel 9:2 – Daniel understands what he reads in Jeremiah

Daniel 9:3 – Daniel seeks by prayer and supplication, with fasting

Daniel 9:19-20 – Daniel praying…

Daniel 9:21-27 – Gabriel comes again to speak to Daniel and foretells about eh Messiah

Daniel 10:5-9 – Daniel sees another vision, a man, described here.

Daniel 10:10-12 – the man speaks

Daniel 10:13 – Michael the archangel

Daniel 10:16-19 – Daniel is given strength

Daniel 10:21 – Michael again

Daniel 12:1 – Michael, those found written in the book will be delivered

Daniel 12:2 – GREAT verse about rising from the graves in the last days

Daniel 12:3 – AWESOME VERSE

Daniel 12:6-7 – time – when he scatters the power of the holy people