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Detail from the church of Lambrechtshagen, Germany, 1759: Daniel in the lions' den with Darius the Mede above. Darius the Mede is mentioned in the Book of Daniel as King of Babylon between Belshazzar and Cyrus the Great, but he is not known to secular history and there is no space in the historical timeline between those two verified rulers. [1]
The Medes and Persians overthrow Nebuchadnezzar and the new king, Darius the Mede, appoints Daniel to high authority. Jealous rivals attempt to destroy Daniel with an accusation that he worships God instead of the king, and Daniel is thrown into a den of lions , but an angel saves him, his accusers are destroyed, and Daniel is restored to his ...
Daniel 2 (the second chapter of the Book of Daniel) tells how Daniel related and interpreted a dream of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon.In his night dream, the king saw a gigantic statue made of four metals, from its head of gold to its feet of mingled iron and clay; as he watched, a stone "not cut by human hands" destroyed the statue and became a mountain filling the whole world.
Although Daniel is sometimes depicted as a young man in illustrations of the incident, James Montgomery Boice points out that he would have been over eighty years old at the time. [1] Painters who have depicted this incident include: Jan Brueghel the Younger, Daniel in the Lions' Den; Briton Rivière, Daniel's Answer to the King
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Daniel's vision of the four beasts – woodcut by Hans Holbein the Younger. In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon (probably 553 BC), Daniel receives a vision from God. He sees the "great sea" stirred up by the "four winds of heaven," and from the waters emerge four beasts, the first a lion with the wings of an eagle, the second a ...
Since their tattoo shop meet-cute in 2019, Elle King and Daniel Tooker have had a relationship full of ups and downs, from their engagement in 2020 to the birth of their son after several ...
Keke Palmer spoke about her relationship and breakup with Darius Jackson, with whom she shares a son named Leo, in her memoir, "Master of Me."