Daniel 2:46

2:46 Then King Nebuchadnezzar bowed down with his face to the ground ¹  and paid homage to Daniel. He gave orders to offer sacrifice and incense to him.

Daniel 3:13

3:13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in a fit of rage ²  demanded that they bring ³  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego before him. So they brought them ⁴  before the king.

Daniel 3:20

3:20 He ordered strong ⁵  soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and to throw them into the furnace of blazing fire.

Daniel 4:7

4:7 When the magicians, astrologers, wise men, and diviners entered, I recounted the dream for them. But they were unable to make known its interpretation to me.

Daniel 5:29

5:29 Then, on Belshazzar’s orders, ⁶  Daniel was clothed in purple, a golden collar was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed third ruler in the kingdom.

Daniel 7:1

Daniel has a Vision of Four Animals Coming up from the Sea

7:1 In the first ⁷  year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had ⁸  a dream filled with visions ⁹  while he was lying on his bed. Then he wrote down the dream in summary fashion. ¹⁰ 

Daniel 7:23

7:23 “This is what he told me: ¹¹ 

‘The fourth beast means that there will be a fourth kingdom on earth

that will differ from all the other kingdoms.

It will devour all the earth

and will trample and crush it.

¹ tn Aram “fell on his face.”

² tn Aram “in anger and wrath”; NASB “in rage and anger.” The expression is a hendiadys.

³ tn The Aramaic infinitive is active.

⁴ tn Aram “these men.” The pronoun is used in the translation to avoid undue repetition.

³ tn This is sometimes taken as a comparative: “[some of the] strongest.”

⁴ tn Aram “Belshazzar spoke.”

⁵ sn The first year of Belshazzar’s reign would have been ca. 553 B.C. Daniel would have been approximately 67 years old at the time of this vision.

⁶ tn Aram “saw.”

⁷ tn Aram “and visions of his head.” The Aramaic is difficult here. Some scholars add a verb thought to be missing (e.g., “the visions of his head [were alarming him]”), but there is no external evidence to support such a decision and the awkwardness of the text at this point may be original.

⁸ tn Aram “head of words.” The phrase is absent in Theodotion. Cf. NIV “the substance of his dream.”

⁶ tn Aram “thus he said.”