Daniel 1:20

1:20 In every matter of wisdom and ¹  insight the king asked them about, he found them to be ten times ²  better than any of the magicians and astrologers that were in his entire empire.

Daniel 2:28

2:28 However, there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, ³  and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the times to come. ⁴  The dream and the visions you had while lying on your bed ⁵  are as follows.

Daniel 3:24

God Delivers His Servants

3:24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was startled and quickly got up. He said to his ministers, “Wasn’t it three men that we tied up and threw ⁶  into ⁷  the fire?” They replied to the king, “For sure, O king.”

Daniel 7:6

7:6 “After these things, ⁸  as I was watching, another beast ⁹  like a leopard appeared, with four bird-like wings on its back. ¹⁰  This beast had four heads, ¹¹  and ruling authority was given to it.

Daniel 7:11

7:11 “Then I kept on watching because of the arrogant words of the horn that was speaking. I was watching ¹²  until the beast was killed and its body destroyed and thrown into ¹³  the flaming fire.

Daniel 8:5

8:5 While I was contemplating all this, ¹⁴  a male goat ¹⁵  was coming from the west over the surface of all the land ¹⁶  without touching the ground. This goat had a conspicuous horn ¹⁷  between its eyes.

Daniel 9:2

9:2 in the first year of his reign ¹⁸  I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books ¹⁹  that, according to the word of the LORD ²⁰  disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem ²¹  were seventy in number.

[1:20]  ¹ tc The MT lacks the conjunction, reading the first word in the phrase as a construct (“wisdom of insight”). While this reading is not impossible, it seems better to follow Theodotion, the Syriac, the Vulgate, and the Sahidic Coptic, all of which have the conjunction.

[1:20]  ² tn Heb “hands.”

[2:28]  ³ tn Aram “a revealer of mysteries.” The phrase serves as a quasi-title for God in Daniel.

[2:28]  ⁴ tn Aram “in the latter days.”

[2:28]  ⁵ tn Aram “your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed.”

[3:24]  ⁵ tn Aram “we threw…bound.”

[3:24]  ⁶ tn Aram “into the midst of.”

[7:6]  ⁷ tn Aram “this.” So also in v. 7.

[7:6]  ⁸ tn Aram “and behold, another one.”

[7:6]  ⁹ tn Or “sides.”

[7:6]  ¹⁰ sn If the third animal is Greece, the most likely identification of these four heads is the four-fold division of the empire of Alexander the Great following his death. See note on Dan 8:8.

[7:11]  ⁹ tc The LXX and Theodotion lack the words “I was watching” here. It is possible that these words in the MT are a dittography from the first part of the verse.

[7:11]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “and given over to” (so NRSV).

[8:5]  ¹¹ tn The words “all this” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.

[8:5]  ¹² tn Heb “and behold, a he-goat of the goats.”

[8:5]  ¹³ tn Or “of the whole earth” (NAB, ASV, NASB, NRSV).

[8:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “a horn of vision” [or “conspicuousness”], i.e., “a conspicuous horn,” one easily seen.

[9:2]  ¹³ tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.

[9:2]  ¹⁴ 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.

[9:2]  ¹⁵ 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.

[9:2]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.