Book of Daniel - BIBLE QUIZ

1. Who was the king of Judah mentioned in the first chapter of Daniel?

Answer:  Jehoiakim

Daniel 1:1 "In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it."

2. Beginning in Daniel chapter one, while Jehoikim was king of Judah, who started a battle with Jerusalem and took captives?

Answer: Nebuchadnezzar

3. Babylonian King gave the captives of Jerusalem Babylonian names. What different name did the king give to Daniel?

Answer:  Belteshazzar (Daniel 1:7)

Daniel 4:8

 "But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my God, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods."

4. The names Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were names given to these young men by the chief of the eunuch. What were their original names?

Answer: Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah

Daniel 1:7 ESV

" And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego."

5. How long did Daniel and his friends, Hanaiah, Azariah, and Mishael, to be fed vegetables and to prove that they could live off it?

Answer: 10 days

Daniel 1:12-16 esv
“Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. 13 Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king's food be observed by you, and deal with your servants according to what you see.” 14 So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days. 15 At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's food. 16 So the steward took away their food and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.

6. How tall was the Nebuchadnezzar's statue of gold that Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to bow to ?

Answer: 60 cubits

Daniel 3:1 ESV

"King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon."

7. What happened to the guards that put Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the furnace to die?

Answer: the flame of the fire killed them

Daniel 3:22 ESV

"Because the king’s order was urgent and the furnace overheated, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego."

8. How many individuals did Nebuchadnezzar see in the furnace?

Answer: 4

Daniel 3:25 ESV

He answered and said, “But I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”

9. What is the name of Daniel's famous Messianic prophecy that is found in chapter nine?

Answer: Seventy Weeks (Daniel 9).

10.  In Daniel 10:4, "And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river...". What was that river?

Answer: Hiddekel

(NOTE: Modern name is "Tigris River"

Daniel 10:4 "And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel."