Daniel 8:16-17

8:16 Then I heard a human voice coming from between the banks of the Ulai. It called out, “Gabriel, ¹  enable this person to understand the vision.” 8:17 So he approached the place where I was standing. As he came, I felt terrified and fell flat on the ground. ²  Then he said to me, “Understand, son of man, ³  that the vision pertains to the time of the end.”

Daniel 9:22-23

9:22 He spoke with me, instructing me as follows: ⁴  “Daniel, I have now come to impart understanding to you. 9:23 At the beginning of your requests a message went out, and I have come to convey it to you, for you are of great value in God’s sight. ⁵  Therefore consider the message and understand the vision: ⁶ 

¹ sn The only angels whose names are given in the OT are Gabriel (Dan 8:16; 9:21; cf. Luke 1:19, 26) and Michael (Dan 10:13, 21; 12:1; cf. Jude 9; Rev 12:7). The name Gabriel means in Hebrew “man of God,” and Michael means “who is like God?”

² tn Heb “on my face.”

³ tn Or “human one.”

⁴ tn Heb “he instructed and spoke with me.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.

⁵ tn Or “a precious treasure”; KJV “greatly beloved”; NASB, NIV “highly esteemed.”

⁶ tn This sentence is perhaps a compound hendiadys (“give serious consideration to the revelatory vision”).