Daniel 2:12

2:12 Because of this the king got furiously angry 1  and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 3:8

3:8 Now 2  at that time certain 3  Chaldeans came forward and brought malicious accusations against 4  the Jews.

Daniel 5:22

5:22 “But you, his son 5  Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, 6  although you knew all this.

Daniel 5:31

5:31 (6:1) 7  So Darius the Mede took control of the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old.

Daniel 6:9

6:9 So King Darius issued the written interdict.

1 tn Aram “was angry and very furious.” The expression is a hendiadys (two words or phrases expressing a single idea).

2 tc This expression is absent in Theodotion.

3 tn Aram “men.”

4 tn Aram “ate the pieces of.” This is a rather vivid idiom for slander.

3 tn Or “descendant”; or “successor.”

4 tn Aram “your heart.”

4 sn Beginning with 5:31, the verse numbers through 6:28 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Aramaic text (BHS), with 5:31 ET = 6:1 AT, 6:1 ET = 6:2 AT, 6:2 ET = 6:3 AT, 6:3 ET = 6:4 AT, etc., through 6:28 ET = 6:29 AT. Beginning with 7:1 the verse numbers in the English Bible and the Aramaic text are again the same.