Nehemiah 9:34

9:34 Our kings, our leaders, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law. They have not paid attention to your commandments or your testimonies by which you have solemnly admonished them.

Psalms 106:6

106:6 We have sinned like ¹  our ancestors; ² 

we have done wrong, we have done evil.

Ezekiel 20:8

20:8 But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, ³  nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out ⁴  my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Daniel 9:5-6

9:5 we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards. 9:6 We have not paid attention to your servants the prophets, who spoke by your authority ⁵  to our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors, ⁶  and to all the inhabitants ⁷  of the land as well.

Daniel 9:8

9:8 O LORD, we have been humiliated ⁸  – our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors – because we have sinned against you.

Daniel 9:1

Daniel Prays for His People

9:1 In the first year of Darius ⁹  son of Ahasuerus, ¹⁰  who was of Median descent and who had been ¹¹  appointed king over the Babylonian ¹²  empire –

Daniel 1:18

1:18 When the time appointed by the king arrived, ¹³  the overseer of the court officials brought them into Nebuchadnezzar’s presence.

¹ tn Heb “with.”

² tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 7).

³ tn Heb “each one, the detestable things of their eyes did not throw away.”

⁴ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

⁵ tn Heb “in your name.” Another option is to translate, “as your representatives.”

⁶ tn Heb “our fathers” (also in vv. 8, 16). The Hebrew term translated “father” can refer to more distant relationships such as grandfathers or ancestors.

⁷ tn Heb “people.”

⁸ tn Heb “to us (belongs) shame of face.”

⁹ sn The identity of this Darius is a major problem in correlating the biblical material with the extra-biblical records of this period. Most modern scholars treat the reference as a mistaken allusion to Darius Hystaspes (ca. 522-486 B.C.). Others have maintained instead that this name is a reference to the Persian governor Gubaru. Still others understand the reference to be to the Persian king Cyrus (cf. 6:28, where the vav (ו) may be understood as vav explicativum, meaning “even”). Under either of these latter two interpretations, the first year of Darius would have been ca. 538 B.C. Daniel would have been approximately eighty-two years old at this time.

¹⁰ tc The LXX reads “Xerxes.” This is the reading used by some English versions (e.g., NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV). Most other English versions retain the Hebrew name “Ahasuerus.”

¹¹ tc The present translation follows the MT in reading a Hophal (i.e., passive). Theodotion, the Syriac, and the Vulgate all presuppose the Hiphil (i.e., active). Even though this is the only occurrence of the Hophal of this verb in the Bible, there is no need to emend the vocalization to the Hiphil.

¹² tn Heb “was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans.”

¹³ tn Heb “at the end of the days which the king said to bring them.”