Daniel 2:9

2:9 If you don’t inform me of the dream, there is only one thing that is going to happen to you. ¹  For you have agreed among yourselves to report to me something false and deceitful ²  until such time as things might change. So tell me the dream, and I will have confidence ³  that you can disclose its interpretation.”

Daniel 3:19

3:19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and his disposition changed ⁴  toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders ⁵  to heat the furnace seven times hotter than it was normally heated.

Daniel 4:19

Daniel Interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream

4:19 Then Daniel (whose name is also Belteshazzar) was upset for a brief time; ⁶  his thoughts were alarming him. The king said, “Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream and its interpretation alarm you.” But Belteshazzar replied, “Sir, ⁷  if only the dream were for your enemies and its interpretation applied to your adversaries!

Daniel 6:2

6:2 Over them would be three supervisors, one of whom was Daniel. These satraps were accountable ⁸  to them, so that the king’s interests might not incur damage.

Daniel 7:5

7:5 “Then ⁹  a second beast appeared, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and there were three ribs ¹⁰  in its mouth between its teeth. ¹¹  It was told, ¹²  ‘Get up and devour much flesh!’

Daniel 2:35

2:35 Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were broken in pieces without distinction ¹³  and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors that the wind carries away. Not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a large mountain that filled the entire earth.

¹ tn Aram “one is your law,” i.e., only one thing is applicable to you.

² tn Aram “a lying and corrupt word.”

³ tn Aram “I will know.”

⁴ tn Aram “the appearance of his face was altered”; cf. NLT “his face became distorted with rage”; NAB “[his] face became livid with utter rage.”

⁵ tn Aram “he answered and said.”

⁷ tn Aram “about one hour.” The expression refers idiomatically to a brief period of time of undetermined length.

⁸ tn Aram “my lord.”

¹⁰ tn Aram “giving an account.”

¹³ tn Aram “and behold.”

¹⁴ sn The three ribs held securely in the mouth of the bear, perhaps representing Media-Persia, apparently symbolize military conquest, but the exact identity of the “ribs” is not clear. Possibly it is a reference to the Persian conquest of Lydia, Egypt, and Babylonia.

¹⁵ tc The LXX lacks the phrase “between its teeth.”

¹⁶ tn Aram “and thus they were saying to it.”

¹⁶ tn Aram “as one.” For the meaning “without distinction” see the following: F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 36, §64, and p. 93; E. Vogt, Lexicon linguae aramaicae, 60.