Daniel 1:14

1:14 So the warden ¹  agreed to their proposal ²  and tested them for ten ³  days.

Daniel 1:16

1:16 So the warden removed the delicacies and the wine ⁴  from their diet ⁵  and gave them a diet of vegetables instead.

Daniel 2:3

2:3 The king told them, “I have had a dream, ⁶  and I ⁷  am anxious to understand the dream.”

Daniel 1:5

1:5 So the king assigned them a daily ration ⁸  from his royal delicacies ⁹  and from the wine he himself drank. They were to be trained ¹⁰  for the next three years. At the end of that time they were to enter the king’s service. ¹¹ 

Daniel 1:7

1:7 But the overseer of the court officials renamed them. He gave ¹²  Daniel the name Belteshazzar, Hananiah he named Shadrach, Mishael he named Meshach, and Azariah he named Abednego. ¹³ 

Daniel 1:17

1:17 Now as for these four young men, God endowed them with knowledge and skill in all sorts of literature and wisdom – and Daniel had insight into all kinds of visions and dreams.

Daniel 11:24

11:24 In a time of prosperity for the most productive areas of the province he will come and accomplish what neither his fathers nor their fathers accomplished. He will distribute loot, spoils, and property to his followers, and he will devise plans against fortified cities, but not for long. ¹⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the warden mentioned in v. 11) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “listened to them with regard to this matter.”

³ sn The number ten is sometimes used in the OT as an ideal number of completeness. Cf. v. 20; Zech 8:23; Rev 2:10.

⁴ tn Heb “the wine of their drinking.”

⁵ tn The words “from their diet” are not in the Hebrew text but have been added in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “I have dreamed a dream” (so KJV, ASV).

⁸ tn Heb “my spirit.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “a thing of a day in its day.”

¹¹ tn Heb “from the delicacies of the king.”

¹² tn Or “educated.” See HALOT 179 s.v. I גדל.

¹³ tn Heb “stand before the king.”

¹³ tc The LXX and Vulgate lack the verb here.

¹⁴ sn The meanings of the Babylonian names are more conjectural than is the case with the Hebrew names. The probable etymologies are as follows: Belteshazzar means “protect his life,” although the MT vocalization may suggest “Belti, protect the king” (cf. Dan 4:8); Shadrach perhaps means “command of Aku”; Meshach is of uncertain meaning; Abednego means “servant of Nego.” Assigning Babylonian names to the Hebrew youths may have been an attempt to erase from their memory their Israelite heritage.

¹⁶ tn Heb “and unto a time.”