“Let the name of God 2 be praised 3 forever and ever,
for wisdom and power belong to him.
1 tn Aram “Daniel answered and said.”
2 sn As is often the case in the Bible, here the name represents the person.
3 tn Or “blessed.”
4 tn Aram “house.”
5 tn Aram “by the might of my strength.”
7 tn Aram “one is your law,” i.e., only one thing is applicable to you.
8 tn Aram “a lying and corrupt word.”
9 tn Aram “I will know.”
10 sn Here they refers to Ptolemy II Philadelphus (ca. 285-246
11 sn The daughter refers to Berenice, who was given in marriage to Antiochus II Theos.
12 tn Heb “the strength of the arm.”
13 tn Heb “stand.” So also in vv. 7, 8, 11, 13.
14 tn Heb “and his arm.” Some understand this to refer to the descendants of the king of the north.
15 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.
16 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