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Daniel

exile in Babylon

Jewish exile in Babylon known for wisdom, visions, and faithfulness.

75 appearances7 Bible books2 known aliases

Who or what is this?

Young Judean of noble birth taken to and renamed Belteshazzar, who refuses the king's food and is granted skill in all wisdom and the interpretation of dreams. He interprets 's statue and tree dreams, reads the writing on the wall for , and is delivered unharmed from the lions' den under . The second half of his book records his own apocalyptic visions of beasts, the Ancient of Days, the seventy weeks, and a final resurrection and reward.

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