Chapter 1 - Daniel and his companions are taken into the palace of the king of Babylon: they abstain from his meat and wine, and succeed better with pulse and water. Their excellence and wisdom. Chapter 2 - Daniel, by divine revelation, declares the dream of Nabuchodonosor, and the interpretation of it. He is highly honoured by the king. Chapter 3 - Nabuchodonosor set up a golden statue; which he commands all to adore: the three children for refusing to do it are cast into the fiery furnace; but are not hurt by the flames. Their prayer and canticle of praise. Chapter 4 - Nabuchodonosor's dream, by which the judgments of God are denounced against him for his pride, is interpreted by Daniel, and verified by the event. Chapter 5 - Baltasar's profane banquet: his sentence is denounced by a handwriting on the wall, which Daniel reads and interprets. Chapter 6 - Daniel is promoted by Darius: his enemies procure a law forbidding prayer; for the transgression of this law Daniel is cast into the lions' den: but miraculously delivered. Chapter 7 - Daniel's vision of the four beasts, signifying four kingdoms: of God sitting on his throne: and of the opposite kingdoms of Christ and Antichrist. Chapter 8 - Daniel's vision of the ram and the he goat interpreted by the angel Gabriel. Chapter 9 - Daniel's confession and prayer: Gabriel informs him concerning the seventy weeks to the coming of Christ. Chapter 10 - Daniel having humbled himself by fasting and penance seeth a vision, with which he is much terrified; but he is comforted by an angel. Chapter 11 - The angel declares to Daniel many things to come, with regard to the Persian and Grecian kings: more especially with regard to Antiochus as a figure of Antichrist. Chapter 12 - Michael shall stand up for the people of God: with other things relating to Antichrist, and the end of the world. Chapter 13 - The history of Susanna and the two elders. This history of Susanna, in all the ancient Greek and Latin Bibles, was placed in the beginning of the book of Daniel: till St. Jerome, in his translation, detached it from thence; because he did not find it in the Hebrew: which is also the case of the history of Bel and the Dragon. But both the one and the other are received by the Catholic Church: and were from the very beginning a part of the Christian Bible. Chapter 14 - The history of Bel, and of the great serpent worshipped by the Babylonians.