DANIEL'S FRIENDS
These are the Hebrew names of Daniel's three friends before they were given Babylonian names.
Who are Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah?
This king had a dream about a great statue made of different metals that troubled him greatly.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
This was the first kingdom represented by the head of gold in Nebuchadnezzar's dream.
What is Babylon?
Daniel was thrown into this place but remained unharmed.
What is the lion's den?
This is how many weeks Daniel was told it would take for the Messiah to come.
What are seventy weeks (or seventy sevens)?
These were the Babylonian names given to Daniel's three friends.
Who are Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego?
In Daniel's vision, this represented the Medo-Persian empire.
What is a bear (or ram with two horns)?
This king saw handwriting on the wall during his feast.
Who is Belshazzar?
The three friends were thrown into this for refusing to bow to the golden statue.
What is the fiery furnace (blazing furnace)?
This phrase was written on the wall at Belshazzar's feast.
What is 'Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin' (or Upharsin)?
Daniel and his friends refused to eat this from the king's table.
What is the king's food and wine (or defiling food)?
Daniel saw this many beasts coming up from the sea in his vision.
What are four beasts?
This king issued a decree that no one could pray to any god except him for thirty days.
Who is Darius?
This person appeared as a fourth man in the fiery furnace with the three friends.
Who is the Son of God (or an angel of the Lord)?
In the vision of the seventy weeks, this event would happen in the middle of the final week.
What is the stopping of sacrifice and offering (or the abomination of desolation)?
This is what Daniel requested to eat instead of the king's food during their test period.
This is what Daniel requested to eat instead of the king's food during their test period.
In Nebuchadnezzar's second dream, he saw this great tree that was cut down.
What is a tree that reached to heaven (whose top reached the heavens)?
This is what happened to Nebuchadnezzar when he became proud, causing him to live like an animal.
What is he lost his sanity (or was driven from men and ate grass like oxen)?
This is how often Daniel prayed each day, which led to his being thrown to the lions.
What is three times a day?
This figure in Daniel's vision had eyes like a man and spoke boastful words against the Most High.
What is the little horn?
The three friends said they would not serve the king's gods even if God did not do this.
What is deliver them from the fiery furnace?
This heavenly being appeared to Daniel by the Tigris River and was so glorious that Daniel fell on his face.
Who is a man clothed in linen (or the angel Gabriel/Michael)?
According to Daniel's interpretation, Belshazzar's kingdom would be divided and given to these two peoples.
Who are the Medes and Persians?
King Darius spent the night doing this after Daniel was thrown to the lions.
What is fasting (and could not sleep)?
In Daniel's vision of the end times, the dead will be resurrected to either everlasting life or this.
What is everlasting contempt (shame and everlasting contempt)?