3:19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and his disposition changed 1 toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders 2 to heat the furnace seven times hotter than it was normally heated.
7:5 “Then 4 a second beast appeared, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and there were three ribs 5 in its mouth between its teeth. 6 It was told, 7 ‘Get up and devour much flesh!’
1 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.”
2 tn Aram “he answered and said.”
3 tn Aram “giving an account.”
5 tn Aram “and behold.”
6 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.
7 tc The LXX lacks the phrase “between its teeth.”
8 tn Aram “and thus they were saying to it.”