Chapter 6

6:1-28 Make a dramatic story about these events and act it out as a play.

Your play might be in several parts: 6:1-5; 6-9; 10-14; 15-18; 19-24; 25-28.

6:1 What did Darius decide to do?

6:2 What do you learn about the three officials? What benefit would the king expect?

6:3 What do you learn about Daniel? What did the king learn? What was the king's reaction? What do you think about all that?

6:4 Who are the actors here? Who was watching whom? Why were they watching? What did they discover? What was their difficulty?

6:5 What did the men say? What do you think about that?

6:6 What happened next? What do you think about that?

6:7 List the actors. Who is not on the list? List all the roles of the actors in the events in these verses. What did some of the actors want the king to do?

6:8 What did they want the king to do? What would be special about that law?

6:9 What did the king do? What do you think about that?

6:10 What did Daniel hear? What did he do? What had changed? What do you think about that?

6:11 Who came? What did they see? What do you think about that?

6:12 List what happened next. What do you think about that?

6:13 List what Daniel's enemies said about Daniel. For each thing on the list say whether it is true or not.

6:14 What did the king do? Why might he have done that? What might you have done if you had been the king?

6:15 What did Daniel’s enemies do in the evening? What did they say? Why might they have said that?

6:16 What order did the king give? So, what did people do to Daniel? Did the king want to kill Daniel? How do you know that?

6:17 List the things that happened. Why did the king mark the stone so that nobody could change Daniel's situation? What do you think about all that?

6:18 List what happened to the king. Why might he not have eaten anything? Why would he have not been happy or able to sleep?

6:19 What did the king do, next morning? Why did he do that?

6:20 List what happened. Why did he try to speak to Daniel? What do you think about that?

6:21 What happened? What was Daniel reply? Why did Daniel reply like that? (See Daniel 2:4; 3:9; 5:10; 6:6.)

6:22 How did Daniel act as a witness for the true God? What do you think about what he said for God? What do you think about what he said for himself?

6:23 What was the king’s reaction? What did the king order the servants to do? What did they notice? Why had this happened? What do you think about all that?

6:24 List what happened next. What do you think about what happened?

6:25 What did Darius do? Where did he send his letter? How did he try to make everyone understand? How did Darius greet his readers? (See Nebuchadnezzar’s letter in Daniel 4:1.)

6:26 What was Darius's message? What did he know about Daniel’s God? What do you think about that?

6:27 What had Darius learnt about God? Where does God do those things? What do you think about what Darius learned?

6:28 Why was Daniel successful? Which kings benefited from Daniel's knowledge of God? (See also Daniel 1:1-2, 18 -21; 5:29-31.) Which countries did these kings came from? What do you think about Daniel’s experience?