Top 7 Bible Verses About Daniel

Here are seven Bible verses about Daniel the Prophet.

Daniel 1:8-9 “But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself. And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs.”

When the captives of Israel had been taken back to Babylon, the king’s eunuch was to find “ youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans” (Dan 1:4) and the eunuch found “Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah of the tribe of Judah” (Dan 1:6) as the cream of the Israel crop.

Daniel 1:19-20 “And the king spoke with them, and among all of them none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king. And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.”

When the king’s eunuch found these young Jewish men, he had found the very best in the Jewish nation for they were “ten times better than” all the other “magicians and enchanters” because their source was the Devil but these men relied upon the Creator God of the universe. He alone knows the end from the beginning so they humbled acknowledged that they have nothing that they did not first receive from God (1st Cor 4:7).

Daniel 2:48 “Then the king gave Daniel high honors and many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.”

Why had Daniel the Prophet been given so many accolades by the king? It was because he had just given “the king its interpretation” (Dan 2:36) of a dream that he had but gave glory to God, saying it was “the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory” (Dan 2:37). God interpreted the king’s dream (Dan 2:28), not Daniel, so Daniel rightly ascribes to God the glory of such a thing.

Daniel 5:29 “Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

The next king, King Belshazzar, was an evil king and did not acknowledge King Nebuchadnezzar’s pronouncement of the one, true God (Dan 4:37), therefore God was God to rip the kingdom out of his hands and give it to another and when King Belshazzar saw “the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin” (Dan 5:25), meaning that “God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians” (Dan 2:26-28).

Daniel 6:3 “Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other high officials and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.”

When King Darius of the Medes and the Persians had taken control, there were those who were jealous of Daniel’s high position and they tricked the king into enacting a law where “whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions” (Dan 6:7). Daniel of course couldn’t do this and so Daniel was delivered to “the mouth of the [lion’s] den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel” (Dan 6:17) but “Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God” (Dan 6:23) but the other men who accused Daniel where themselves fed to the lions (Dan 6:23).

Daniel 6:16 “Then the king commanded, and Daniel was brought and cast into the den of lions. The king declared to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!”

After Daniel survived the night in the lion’s den, the king asked that God might deliver him whom he continually serves as so by Daniel’s willingness to die rather than break God’s law, “this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian” (Dan 6:28) and so too will all who willingly give their lives for God, either as martyrs or as a slave for Christ and His mission for their lives.

Daniel 12:2-3 “And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.”

This verse talks about the last resurrection of all who have ever lived. Some will rise but it will be for “shame and everlasting contempt,” having rejected the Lord as Savior but for those who live their lives for God or for others who die for their faith, they “shall like the brightness of the sky above” will shine forever “like the stars [do] forever and ever.”

Conclusion

Daniel is proof positive that teenagers can be used mightily for God. God doesn’t respect a person’s ethnic or social status and has no regard for the rich or powerful, but gives grace to the humble, no matter who they are. All who repent and turn to Christ will also shine like the stars forever and even more so for those who “turn many to righteousness” or toward Christ.

Article by Jack Wellman

Jack Wellman is Pastor of the Mulvane Brethren Church in Mulvane Kansas. Jack is also the Senior Writer at What Christians Want To Know whose mission is to equip, encourage, and energize Christians and to address questions about the believer’s daily walk with God and the Bible. You can follow Jack on Google Plus or check out his book Teaching Children the Gospel available on Amazon.