Daniel 5:3

5:3 So they brought the gold and silver ¹  vessels that had been confiscated from the temple, the house of God ²  in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, together with his wives and concubines, drank from them.

Daniel 9:2

9:2 in the first year of his reign ³  I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books ⁴  that, according to the word of the LORD ⁵  disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem ⁶  were seventy in number.

Daniel 9:12

9:12 He has carried out his threats ⁷  against us and our rulers ⁸  who were over ⁹  us by bringing great calamity on us – what has happened to Jerusalem has never been equaled under all heaven!

¹ tc The present translation reads וְכַסְפָּא (vÿkhaspa’, “and the silver”) with Theodotion and the Vulgate. Cf. v. 2. The form was probably accidentally dropped from the Aramaic text by homoioteleuton.

² tn Aram “the temple of the house of God.” The phrase seems rather awkward. The Vulgate lacks “of the house of God,” while Theodotion and the Syriac lack “the house.”

³ tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.

⁴ tn The Hebrew text has “books”; the word “sacred” has been added in the translation to clarify that it is Scriptures that are referred to.

⁵ sn The tetragrammaton (the four Hebrew letters which constitute the divine Name, YHWH) appears eight times in this chapter, and nowhere else in the book of Daniel.

⁶ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁵ tn Heb “he has fulfilled his word(s) which he spoke.”

⁶ tn Heb “our judges.”

⁷ tn Heb “who judged.”