Daniel Chapter 3
Chapter three recounts Nebuchadnezzar’s mounting ego which resulted in his building a golden image of himself in the plain of Dura. Obeisance was to be done before the statue, any refusal being punishable by death. Certain Chaldeans inform the great king that Daniel’s three friends, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, refuse to worship the image. Nebuchadnezzar orders a furnace to be heated seven times hotter than usual; yet through divine intervention, the three Hebrew children are miraculously delivered.
Daniel Chapter 4
Nebuchadnezzar receives a second dream that his wise men are unable to interpret. Daniel again is given the divine insight and proper interpretation of the dream. This dream differs from the first in that it is derogatory to the king. Twelve months after Daniel’s audience with Nebuchadnezzar, the king lost his sanity for a season. His mind is eventually restored, an act for which he fully acknowledged the sovereignty of Jehovah.
Daniel Chapter 5
The great feast of Belshazzar, one of Nebuchadnezzar’s successors, occurs in this chapter. Belshazzar is an arrogant leader who, while dining, defiles the vessels of the holy temple of Jerusalem, revealing his utter contempt for the God of the Hebrews. The party abruptly ends as writing appears miraculously upon the wall. Daniel, well on in years, is called upon to interpret the writing, which signals an end to Belshazzar’s rule, while predicting the rise of the next Medo-Persian kingdom. That same evening, Belshazzar dies.
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