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Book of Daniel outline
Historical Chapters 1 - 6
1 Deported as a teenager
2 Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream
3 Bow or Burn: the Furnace
4 Nebuchadnezzar’s Pride
5 The Fall of Babylon
6 The Lion’s Den

Visions Chapters 7 - 12
7 Four Beasts
8 The Ram and the He-Goat
9 The Seventy Weeks
10 A Glimpse of the Dark Side
11 The “Silent Years” and more
12 The Consummation of All Things

Chronological Order
1 Babylonian Captivity 606 B.C.
2 Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream 602 B.C.
3 Nebuchadnezzar’s Image
4 Nebuchadnezzar’s Pride
7 The vision of the 4 beasts 556 B.C.
8 Ram and He-goat vision 554 B.C.
5 Babylon falls to Persians 539 B.C.
9 Vision of seventy weeks 538 B.C.
6 The Lions’ Den
10 -12 Closing visions

Chapters 1, 8-12 written in Hebrew and deal with Israel directly. Chapters 2-7 are in Aramaic and target gentiles.