11:40 “At the time of the end the king of the south will attack 1 him. Then the king of the north will storm against him 2 with chariots, horsemen, and a large armada of ships. 3 He 4 will invade lands, passing through them like an overflowing river. 5
8:19 Then he said, “I am going to inform you about what will happen in the latter time of wrath, for the vision 6 pertains to the appointed time of the end.
10:1 7 In the third 8 year of King Cyrus of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel (who was also called Belteshazzar). This message was true and concerned a great war. 9 He understood the message and gained insight by the vision.
2:3 For the message is a witness to what is decreed; 10
it gives reliable testimony about how matters will turn out. 11
Even if the message 12 is not fulfilled right away, wait patiently; 13
for it will certainly come to pass – it will not arrive late.
17:1 After they traveled through 19 Amphipolis 20 and Apollonia, 21 they came to Thessalonica, 22 where there was a Jewish synagogue. 23
5:1 Now a man named Ananias, together with Sapphira his wife, sold a piece of property.
1 tn Heb “engage in thrusting.”
2 tn The referent of the pronoun is most likely the king of the south, in which case the text describes the king of the north countering the attack of the king of the south.
3 tn Heb “many ships.”
4 tn This most likely refers to the king of the north who, in response to the aggression of the king of the south, launches an invasion of the southern regions.
5 tn Heb “and will overflow and pass over.”
6 tn The Hebrew text does not actually state the referent (the vision Daniel saw in vv. 8-12; cf. also v. 13), which has been specified in the translation for clarity. Some Greek witnesses add “the vision” here.
7 sn This chapter begins the final unit in the book of Daniel, consisting of chapters 10-12. The traditional chapter divisions to some extent obscure the relationship of these chapters.
8 tc The LXX has “first.”
9 tn The meaning of the Hebrew word צָבָא (tsava’) is uncertain in this context. The word most often refers to an army or warfare. It may also mean “hard service,” and many commentators take that to be the sense here (i.e., “the service was great”). The present translation assumes the reference to be to the spiritual conflicts described, for example, in 10:16–11:1.
10 tn Heb “For the vision is still for the appointed time.” The Hebrew word עוֹד (’od, “still”) is better emended to עֵד (’ed, “witness”) in light of the parallelism (see the note on the word “turn out” in the following line). The “appointed time” refers to the time when the divine judgment anticipated in vv. 6-20 will be realized.
11 tn Heb “and a witness to the end and it does not lie.” The Hebrew term יָפֵחַ (yafeakh) has been traditionally understood as a verb form from the root פּוּחַ (puakh, “puff, blow”; cf. NEB “it will come in breathless haste”; NASB “it hastens toward the goal”) but recent scholarship has demonstrated that it is actually a noun meaning “witness” (cf. NIV “it speaks of the end / and will not prove false”; NRSV “it speaks of the end, and does not lie”). See J. J. M. Roberts, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah (OTL), 106. “The end” corresponds to “the appointed time” of the preceding line and refers to the time when the prophecy to follow will be fulfilled.
12 tn Heb “it”; the referent (the message) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
13 tn Heb “If it should delay, wait for it.” The Hebrew word חָזוֹן (khazon, “vision, message”) is the subject of the third person verbs in v. 3 and the antecedent of the pronominal suffix in the phrase “for it.”
14 tn Grk “It is not for you to know.”
15 tn Or “fixed.”
16 sn The world refers to the whole inhabited earth.
17 tn Or “appointed.” BDAG 723 s.v. ὁρίζω 2.b has “of persons appoint, designate, declare: God judges the world ἐν ἀνδρὶ ᾧ ὥρισεν through a man whom he has appointed Ac 17:31.”
18 tn The participle ἀναστήσας (anasthsa") indicates means here.
19 tn BDAG 250 s.v. διοδεύω 1 has “go, travel through” for this verse.
20 sn Amphipolis. The capital city of the southeastern district of Macedonia (BDAG 55 s.v. ᾿Αμφίπολις). It was a military post. From Philippi this was about 33 mi (53 km).
21 sn Apollonia was a city in Macedonia about 27 mi (43 km) west southwest of Amphipolis.
22 sn Thessalonica (modern Salonica) was a city in Macedonia about 33 mi (53 km) west of Apollonia. It was the capital of Macedonia. The road they traveled over was called the Via Egnatia. It is likely they rode horses, given their condition in Philippi. The implication of v. 1 is that the two previously mentioned cities lacked a synagogue.
23 sn See the note on synagogue in 6:9.