Daniel 1
Dan 1:1-6 NIV In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. (2) And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple...
Daniel 2
Dan 2:1-11 NAS77 Now in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him. (2) Then the king gave orders to call in the magicians, the conjurers, the sorcerers and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and...
Daniel 3
Dan 3:1-7 NIV King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, ninety feet high and nine feet wide, and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. (2) He then summoned the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials to come to the dedication of...
Daniel 4
Daniel 4 is a highly disputed chapter of Daniel do to the seeming lack of corroboration of the events described. Historians criticize it due to the lack of evidence for such a powerful and apparently self-proclaimed event in Nebuchadnezzar's life. This can be explained by the limited historical evidence for Nebuchadnezzar himself. Very few authors...
Daniel 5
Dan 5:1-9 NIV King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them. (2) While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his...
Daniel 6
Dan 6:1-9 NIV It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom, (2) with three administrators over them, one of whom was Daniel. The satraps were made accountable to them so that the king might not suffer loss. (3) Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his...
Daniel 7
Dan 7:1-14 NASB In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel saw a dream and visions in his mind as he lay on his bed; then he wrote the dream down and related the following summary of it. (2) Daniel said, "I was looking in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up...
Daniel 9
Dan 9:1-2 NASB In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans-- (2) in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the LORD to...