Daniel 2:44

2:44 In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever.

Daniel 3:3

3:3 So the satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other provincial authorities assembled for the dedication of the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had erected. They were standing in front of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar had erected. ¹ 

Daniel 3:28

3:28 Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed, ²  “Praised be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent forth his angel ³  and has rescued his servants who trusted in him, ignoring ⁴  the edict of the king and giving up their bodies rather than ⁵  serve or pay homage to any god other than their God!

Daniel 5:19

5:19 Due to the greatness that he bestowed on him, all peoples, nations, and language groups were trembling with fear ⁶  before him. He killed whom he wished, he spared ⁷  whom he wished, he exalted whom he wished, and he brought low whom he wished.

Daniel 6:7

6:7 To all the supervisors of the kingdom, the prefects, satraps, counselors, and governors it seemed like a good idea for a royal edict to be issued and an interdict to be enforced. For the next thirty days anyone who prays ⁸  to any god or human other than you, O king, should be thrown into a den of lions.

Daniel 11:2

11:2 Now I will tell you the truth.

The Angel Gives a Message to Daniel

“Three ⁹  more kings will arise for Persia. Then a fourth ¹⁰  king will be unusually rich, ¹¹  more so than all who preceded him. When he has amassed power through his riches, he will stir up everyone against ¹²  the kingdom of Greece.

¹ tc The LXX and Theodotion lack the words “that Nebuchadnezzar had erected.”

¹ tn Aram “answered and said.”

² sn The king identifies the “son of the gods” (v. 25) as an angel. Comparable Hebrew expressions are used elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible for the members of God’s angelic assembly (see Gen 6:2, 4; Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7; Pss 29:1; 89:6). An angel later comes to rescue Daniel from the lions (Dan 6:22).

³ tn Aram “they changed” or “violated.”

⁴ tn Aram “so that they might not.”

¹ tn Aram “were trembling and fearing.” This can be treated as a hendiadys, “were trembling with fear.”

² tn Aram “let live.” This Aramaic form is the aphel participle of חַיָה(khayah, “to live”). Theodotion and the Vulgate mistakenly take the form to be from מְחָא (mÿkha’, “to smite”).

¹ tn Aram “prays a prayer.”

¹ sn Perhaps these three more kings are Cambyses (ca. 530-522 B.C.), Pseudo-Smerdis (ca. 522 B.C.), and Darius I Hystaspes (ca. 522-486 B.C.).

² sn This fourth king is Xerxes I (ca. 486-465 B.C.). The following reference to one of his chiefs apparently has in view Seleucus Nicator.

³ tn Heb “rich with great riches.”

⁴ tn The text is difficult. The Hebrew has here אֶת (’et), the marker of a definite direct object. As it stands, this would suggest the meaning that “he will arouse everyone, that is, the kingdom of Greece.” The context, however, seems to suggest the idea that this Persian king will arouse in hostility against Greece the constituent elements of his own empire. This requires supplying the word “against,” which is not actually present in the Hebrew text.