Daniel 1:5

1:5 So the king assigned them a daily ration ¹  from his royal delicacies ²  and from the wine he himself drank. They were to be trained ³  for the next three years. At the end of that time they were to enter the king’s service. ⁴ 

Daniel 11:8

11:8 He will also take their gods into captivity to Egypt, along with their cast images and prized utensils of silver and gold. Then he will withdraw for some years from ⁵  the king of the north.

Daniel 11:13

11:13 For the king of the north will again muster an army, one larger than before. At the end of some years he will advance with a huge army and enormous supplies.

Daniel 12:5

12:5 I, Daniel, watched as two others stood there, one on each side of the river. ⁶ 

Daniel 11:6

11:6 After some years have passed, they ⁷  will form an alliance. Then the daughter ⁸  of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement, but she will not retain her power, ⁹  nor will he continue ¹⁰  in his strength. ¹¹  She, together with the one who brought her, her child, ¹²  and her benefactor will all be delivered over at that time. ¹³ 

¹ tn Heb “a thing of a day in its day.”

² tn Heb “from the delicacies of the king.”

³ tn Or “educated.” See HALOT 179 s.v. I גדל.

⁴ tn Heb “stand before the king.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew preposition מִן (min) is used here with the verb עָמַד (’amad, “to stand”). It probably has a sense of separation (“stand away from”), although it may also be understood in an adversative sense (“stand against”).

⁹ tn Heb “one to this edge of the river and one to that edge of the river.”

¹³ sn Here they refers to Ptolemy II Philadelphus (ca. 285-246 B.C.) and Antiochus II Theos (ca. 262-246 B.C.).

¹⁴ sn The daughter refers to Berenice, who was given in marriage to Antiochus II Theos.

¹⁵ tn Heb “the strength of the arm.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “stand.” So also in vv. 7, 8, 11, 13.

¹⁷ tn Heb “and his arm.” Some understand this to refer to the descendants of the king of the north.

¹⁸ tc The present translation reads יַלְדָּה (yaldah, “her child”) rather than the MT יֹלְדָהּ (yolÿdah, “the one who begot her”). Cf. Theodotion, the Syriac, and the Vulgate.

¹⁹ sn Antiochus II eventually divorced Berenice and remarried his former wife Laodice, who then poisoned her husband, had Berenice put to death, and installed her own son, Seleucus II Callinicus (ca. 246-227 B.C.), as the Seleucid king.