Chapter 2
2:1-49 Make up a dramatic story from these events and act it out as a play.
Your play might be in several parts: 2:1-13; 14-16; 17-23; 24-30; 31-35; 36-45; 46-49.
2:1 What was Nebuchadnezzar's position? (See Daniel 1:1.) How long had he been in that position? What happened to him then? What effects did that have on him? What do you remember about dreams that you have had?
2:2 What did the king do about his problem? What did he want to hear?
2:3 What did the king ask these wise men to tell him? What do you think about that?
2:4 Who answered the king? What was their answer? What do you think about that answer? Which language did they use? Do you think that the king understood that language?
2:5 List what the king had 'decided'. Why might he have come to those decisions? Some people might not tell the king what he wanted to know. What would happen to them? What do you think about that?
2:6 List what the king demanded. List the rewards that the king promised to anyone who could tell him his dream. Why might he have made those demands and promises? What should his wise men do?
2:7 What was their request? What do you think about that?
2:8 What did the king say about them? Why do you think that he said that?
2:9 What do you learn about the king? What do you think about his reasoning? What might have been his previous experience when he asked for advice from the wise men? What does he demand from those men?
2:10 Who are the ‘actors’ here? What do the wise men say? What do you think about what they say?
2:11 List the parts of the answer. What do you think about the answer?
2:12 What did the king order his guards to do? Why? What might happen if there were no longer any wise men in a country?
2:13 What happened? What do you think about that?
2:14 List the ‘actors’ here. What should Arioch do? What did Daniel do? What do you think about that?
2:15 What did Daniel ask about? How did Arioch reply? What do you think about that?
2:16 What did Daniel do? If you were Daniel, would you have done that, do you think? Why, or, why not? What was Daniel’s request? Do you think that it was a good request? Why?
2:17 What did Daniel do next? What do you think about that?
2:18 List the instructions that he gave. Why do you think that Daniel involved his friends? What did Daniel show that he believed?
2:19 What happened to Daniel in the night? What did Daniel do about that? What do you think about that?
2:20 What does Daniel know about God? What does he do about what he knows?
2:21 What else does Daniel know about God? What do you think about that?
2:22 What else did Daniel know about God? What difference might that make to you?
2:23 For what does Daniel thank God? What does Daniel say that God has done for him? What do you think about that?
2:24 What did Daniel do next? What did he say to Arioch? What did Daniel want to do?
2:25 What reaction did Arioch have to Daniel? How did he introduce Daniel to the king? What difference do you think that an introduction might make? What introductions have you had, or watched? What might be important when you introduce somebody?
2:26 What happened? What did the king ask Daniel?
2:27 How did Daniel start his answer to the king? What do you think about that?
2:28 How did Daniel continue? What do you think about that? What did Daniel promise to Nebuchadnezzar?
2:29 List what Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar. How did Daniel introduce God? What do you think about that introduction?
2:30 What does Daniel say about himself? How does Daniel explain why God used him to answer the king? What did God want the king to know?
2:31 What had the king seen? What was it like? What was the people’s reaction to it?
2:32 What were the metals? Which metal was in which part of the body?
2:33 What were the legs and feet of the image made from? What do you expect of that mixture?
2:34 What does Daniel say that the king saw? What was strange about it? What did the stone do?
2:35 List what happened to the parts of the image. What happened to the stone? What do you think about that?
2:36-37 What does Daniel tell the king now? What has God done? What do you think about that?
2:38 What has God given to the king? How did he become a king that ruled so much? What does Daniel say that the king is like?
2:39 What two other
2:40 What
2:41 What did the king see? What did Daniel say that it meant? What do you think about that?
2:42 What were the toes made from? What did that mean?
2:43 What did the king see? What does that mean about the kings? And about the people? What do you know about mixed people like that?
2:44 What will the God who rules in Heaven do in the days when those kings rule? What do you learn about that
2:45 What more had the king seen? Who does Daniel say had shown these things to the king in his dream? What can the king be sure about?
2:46 List what king Nebuchadnezzar did. What do you think about that?
2:47 List what the king said to Daniel. Why do you think he said that? What do you think about all that?
2:48 List what the king did for Daniel. What do you think about that?
2:49 What did Daniel ask the king to do? Why would it help Daniel to have his friends in those positions? What do you think Daniel’s work was?