OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

 1

• Jerusalem besieged by the Babylonians (1, 2)

• Special training for young royal captives (3-5)

• Four Hebrews’ faithfulness tested (6-21)

 2

• King Nebuchadnezzar has a disturbing dream (1-4)

• No wise man able to tell the dream (5-13)

• Daniel turns to God for help (14-18)

• Praise to God for revealing the secret (19-23)

• Daniel tells the dream to the king (24-35)

• The dream’s interpretation (36-45)

  • Kingdom stone to crush the image (44, 45)

• Daniel honored by the king (46-49)

 3

• King Nebuchadnezzar’s golden image (1-7)

  • Demands worship of the image (4-6)

• Three Hebrews accused of not obeying (8-18)

  • “We will not serve your gods” (18)

• Thrown into the fiery furnace (19-23)

• Miraculous rescue from the fire (24-27)

• The king extols the God of the Hebrews (28-30)

 4

• King Nebuchadnezzar recognizes God’s kingship (1-3)

• The king’s dream about a tree (4-18)

  • Seven times to pass over the fallen tree (16)

  • God is Ruler over mankind (17)

• Daniel interprets the dream (19-27)

• Initial fulfillment on the king (28-36)

  • The king insane for seven times (32, 33)

• The king exalts the God of heaven (37)

 5

• King Belshazzar’s feast (1-4)

• The handwriting on the wall (5-12)

• Daniel asked to interpret the writing (13-25)

• Interpretation: Babylon to fall (26-31)

 6

• Persian officials plot against Daniel (1-9)

• Daniel continues to pray (10-15)

• Daniel thrown into the lions’ pit (16-24)

• King Darius honors Daniel’s God (25-28)

 7

• Vision of the four beasts (1-8)

  • An arrogant small horn rises (8)

• The Ancient of Days holds court (9-14)

  • A son of man made king (13, 14)

• Interpretation made known to Daniel (15-28)

  • The four beasts are four kings (17)

  • Holy ones to receive the kingdom (18)

  • Ten horns, or kings, to rise up (24)

 8

• Vision of a ram and a male goat (1-14)

  • A small horn exalts itself (9-12)

  • Until 2,300 evenings and mornings (14)

• Gabriel interprets the vision (15-27)

  • The ram and the male goat explained (20, 21)

  • A fierce-looking king stands up (23-25)

 9

• Daniel’s prayer of confession (1-19)

  • Seventy years of desolation (2)

• Gabriel comes to Daniel (20-23)

• Seventy prophetic weeks foretold (24-27)

  • Messiah to appear after 69 weeks (25)

  • Messiah to be cut off (26)

  • The city and the holy place to be destroyed (26)

10

• Daniel visited by a messenger from God (1-21)

  • Michael helps the angel (13)

11

• Kings of Persia and Greece (1-4)

• Kings of the south and of the north (5-45)

  • An exactor to rise up (20)

  • The Leader of the covenant broken (22)

  • The god of fortresses glorified (38)

  • A pushing between king of the south and king of the north (40)

  • Disturbing reports from the east and the north (44)

12

• “The time of the end” and beyond (1-13)

  • Michael to stand up (1)

  • Insightful ones to shine brightly (3)

  • True knowledge to be abundant (4)

  • Daniel to stand up for his lot (13)