The words with missing letters in the following story are the same as those in the crossword, only in the crossword they run in two directions, across or down. Try to fill in the missing letters in the squares.
You can read this story in the book of Daniel.
Daniel was the name of one of the captives carried into the land of Babylon. He did not want to defile himself by eating the king’s meat, so he chose P __ L __ __ to eat and water to drink. D __ N __ __ L had T __ __ __ E friends who chose to be cast into a fiery F __ __ N __ C __ rather than worship the king’s __ D __ L. God protected Daniel and his friends in their difficult times.
Daniel was cast into a D __ __ of lions because he P __ __ Y __ D to God three times a day. Again God protected Daniel by closing the lions’ mouths.
One day, King B __ L __ __ A __ Z __ __ had a F __ __ __ T in his P __ __ __ C __ and worshipped his gods of gold and silver, not the God of heaven. In the same hour, a strange thing happened; F __ __ G __ __ S of a man’s hand wrote upon the wall. The king became terrified and called for the wise men to tell him what was the meaning of the words. None of the king’s men could tell the meaning of the words. Then Daniel was sent for. Daniel told the king that God was displeased with him because he had not humbled his H __ A __ T. God was going to give his kingdom to someone else. That night Babylon was taken and Belshazzar slain.
Daniel is called a prophet because he wrote of things that would take place in the future. God sent an angel by the name of G __ B __ __ __ L to help him understand these things.
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