Daniel 1:14

1:14 So the warden ¹  agreed to their proposal ²  and tested them for ten ³  days.

Daniel 10:2

10:2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three whole weeks. ⁴ 

Daniel 11:33

11:33 These who are wise among the people will teach the masses. ⁵  However, they will fall ⁶  by the sword and by the flame, ⁷  and they will be imprisoned and plundered for some time. ⁸ 

Daniel 12:11

12:11 From the time that the daily sacrifice is removed and the abomination that causes desolation is set in place, ⁹  there are 1,290 days.

Daniel 1:12

1:12 “Please test your servants for ten days by providing us with some vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Daniel 1:15

1:15 At the end of the ten days their appearance was better and their bodies were healthier ¹⁰  than all the young men who had been eating the royal delicacies.

Daniel 8:27

8:27 I, Daniel, was exhausted ¹¹  and sick for days. Then I got up and again carried out the king’s business. But I was astonished at the vision, and there was no one to explain it.

Daniel 10:3

10:3 I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips, ¹²  nor did I anoint myself with oil ¹³  until the end of those three weeks.

Daniel 11:45

11:45 He will pitch his royal tents between the seas ¹⁴  toward the beautiful holy mountain. But he will come to his end, with no one to help him.

[1:14]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the warden mentioned in v. 11) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:14]  ² tn Heb “listened to them with regard to this matter.”

[1:14]  ³ sn The number ten is sometimes used in the OT as an ideal number of completeness. Cf. v. 20; Zech 8:23; Rev 2:10.

[10:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “three weeks of days.” The inclusion of “days” here and in v. 3 is perhaps intended to call attention to the fact that these weeks are very different in nature from those of chap. 9, which are “weeks of years.”

[11:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “the many.”

[11:33]  ⁸ tn Heb “stumble.”

[11:33]  ⁹ tn Or “by burning.”

[11:33]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “days.”

[12:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to give.”

[1:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “fat of flesh”; KJV, ASV “fatter in flesh”; NASB, NRSV “fatter” (although this is no longer a sign of health in Western culture).

[8:27]  ¹⁶ tn The Hebrew word here is נִהְיֵיתִי (nihyetiy). Its meaning is not entirely clear. Hebrew הָיָה (hayah) normally has meanings such as “to be” or “become.” Here, however, it describes Daniel’s emotional and physical response to the enigmatic vision that he has seen. It is parallel to the following verb, which refers to illness, and seems to refer to a state of utter exhaustion due to the amazing things that Daniel has just seen. The LXX lacks the word. On the meaning of the word see further, BDB 227-28 s.v. הָיָה Niph.2; DCH 2:540 s.v. היה I Ni.3.

[10:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “mouth.”

[10:3]  ²⁰ sn Anointing oneself with oil (usually olive oil) was a common OT practice due to the severity of the Middle Eastern sun (cf. Ps 121:6). It was also associated with rejoicing (e.g., Prov 27:9) and was therefore usually not practiced during a period of mourning.

[11:45]  ²² sn Presumably seas refers to the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea.