Daniel 6:1-28

What this episode covers

In order to get a running start into one of the most famous passages in all of the Bible — Daniel and the Lion’s Den, the last two verses of chapter 5 set the stage for Daniel 6. We’re told, “That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.” In one night the Babylonian Empire gave way to the Medes and the Persians. As God foretold back in Daniel 2, the “head of gold” was taken by “another kingdom” typified by the “chest and arms of silver. . .

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