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Daniel

Also called Belteshazzar

An imagined, stylized portrait. No one knows what Daniel looked like. AI-generated

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In the book of Daniel, a young Judean taken to Babylon who interprets the king's dreams and is thrown into a den of lions for praying to his God.

See Daniel 1:6, Daniel 2:19, Daniel 6:10, Daniel 6:16.

A lion marks Daniel in the reading view: “My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths” (Daniel 6:22).

Mentioned in 72 verses across 4 books, first in Matthew 24:15. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

How artists have pictured him

3 works from different centuries and traditions. Each shows how its time and place imagined Daniel, not how he looked.

The Prophet Daniel, Russian icon (prophets tier), Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow — **Undated** · *The Prophet Daniel*. Russian icon (prophets tier), Tretyakov Gallery, MoscowPhoto: Mortier.Daniel, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Michelangelo, The Prophet Daniel, Fresco, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Rome — **1511** · Michelangelo, *The Prophet Daniel*. Fresco, Sistine Chapel ceiling, RomePublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

Briton Rivière, Daniel's Answer to the King, Oil on canvas, Manchester Art Gallery — **1890** · Briton Rivière, *Daniel's Answer to the King*. Oil on canvas, Manchester Art GalleryPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

In these stories

Daniel and his friends in Babylon

Questions about this

Is Jeremiah 29:11 a promise to you?

In the Bible

All 1 verse in Matthew, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Matthew

Matthew 24:15
So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),

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Events

Events the dataset lists Daniel as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. 606 BC
Prophecies of DanielDaniel 1:1–12:13

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

Beltis protect the king!, the Chaldee name given to Daniel by Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 1:7).