472 A SHORT VIEW OF SCRIPTURE HISTORY. 17. Q. How soon was this fulfilled ? A. At the end of twelve months he was walking in the palace of Babylon, and boasting of his grandeur and majesty, there fell a voice from heaven, that his kingdom was departed, and he should be driven from men : and immediately he was seized with madness, and the sentence was executed upon him, and he fled from the so- ciety of men, and herded with the beasts in the open field ; Verses 28-33. 18. Q. What did Nebuchadnezzar do at seven years end, when his understanding and his kingdom were restored to him ? A. Hedid further honours to the God of heaven, and published this history ofhimself, and these signs and wonders of the great God, throughout all his dominions ; Verses 1 -3. 19. Q. What notice was taken of Daniel in the time of Belshazzar the grándson of Nebuchadnezzar? A. He was sent for to court to read and interpret three or four words, which were written upon the wall by the apparition of a hand. while. Belshazzar was feasting ; Dan. v. 5 -16. 20. Q. What was there in Belshazzar's feast that eminently provokedGod against him ? A. He and his nobles drank in the holy vessels that were taken out of the temple of God at .Jeru- salem, and at the same time they praised their gods of gold and silver, of wood and stone ; Dan. v. 1 -4. 21. Q. What was the meaning of this writing against the wall ? A. That God had finished Belshazzar's kingdom, and, given it to the Medes and Persians ; Verses 25-28. 22. Q. What honour was done to Daniel ? A. He was imme- diately clothed in scarlet, with a chain of gold, and made the third ruler in the kingdom ; Verse29. 23. Q. When was this sentence executed on Belshazzar ? A. Hewas slain that very night, by the army under the com- mand of Cyrus the general, who after along siege took the city Babylon, and the kingdom was translated to Darius the Mede, the emperor of the Medes and Persians ; Verses 30, 31. 24. Q. Did Daniel lose his preferment by the change of the kingdom ? A. No ; for Darius set Daniel over all the hundred , and twenty princes and made him first of the three presidents ; Dan. vi. 1 -3. 25. Q. How did the envy of the presidents and princes perse-, cute him on this accasion ? A. They knew that Daniel would pray to his God, and they persuaded king Darius to sign a de- cree, that if any man should ask a petition of any god or man for thirty daysbesides of the king himself, he should be cast into the lions' den Verses 4 -9. 26. Q. What did Daniel do when he heard of this decree? A. He went to his "house, and the windows being open toward Jerusalem, he prayed to his God three times a day, according to his custom ; Verse 10.
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