Daniel was a Jewish youth of noble lineage who was taken to Babylon in exile. He became known for his wisdom, his ability to interpret dreams, and his apocalyptic visions. He served under several Babylonian and Persian kings and remained faithful to God through all trials.
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Steadfastness in Food
Daniel and his friends refused to eat the king's unclean food and were blessed with better health than the others.
17To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of every kind of writing and wisdom, and Daniel also had insight into visions and dreams of every kind.
28But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the last days. Your dream and the visions that passed through your mind as you lay in bed were these:
44In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will stand forever.
45This is the meaning of the stone you saw cut from the mountain, not by human hands, which broke to pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. The great God has shown the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is true, and its interpretation is trustworthy."
47The king said to Daniel, "Truly your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings, the revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery."
28PERES—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians." [Footnote: PERES sounds like the Aramaic word for 'divided' and also like the name 'Persia.']
16Then these men crowded in on the king and said to him, "Know, O king, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no ban or decree the king issues can be changed."
21When he came near the den, he called out to Daniel in an anguished voice, "Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue you from the lions?"
23My God sent his angel and shut the mouths of the lions, and they have not harmed me, because I was found innocent before him. And before you too, O king, I have done no wrong."
24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city: to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint a most holy place.
25Know this and understand: from the going out of the word to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, a prince, there will be seven weeks; then for sixty-two weeks it will be rebuilt with streets and moat, but in times of distress.
26After the sixty-two weeks an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. The people of a prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed.