Daniel 2:13-14

2:13 So a decree went out, and the wise men were about ¹  to be executed. They also sought ²  Daniel and his friends so that they could be executed.

2:14 Then Daniel spoke with prudent counsel ³  to Arioch, who was in charge of the king’s executioners and who had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon.

¹ tn The Aramaic participle is used here to express the imminent future.

² tn The impersonal active plural (“they sought”) of the Aramaic verb could also be translated as an English passive: “Daniel and his friends were sought” (cf. NAB).

³ tn Aram “returned prudence and counsel.” The expression is a hendiadys.