Daniel 1:5

1:5 So the king assigned them a daily ration ¹  from his royal delicacies ²  and from the wine he himself drank. They were to be trained ³  for the next three years. At the end of that time they were to enter the king’s service. ⁴ 

Daniel 2:35

2:35 Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were broken in pieces without distinction ⁵  and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors that the wind carries away. Not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a large mountain that filled the entire earth.

Daniel 2:44

2:44 In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever.

Daniel 3:3

3:3 So the satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other provincial authorities assembled for the dedication of the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had erected. They were standing in front of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar had erected. ⁶ 

Daniel 4:32

4:32 You will be driven from human society, and you will live with the wild animals. You will be fed grass like oxen, and seven periods of time will pass by for you before ⁷  you understand that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms and gives them to whomever he wishes.”

Daniel 5:2

5:2 While under the influence ⁸  of the wine, Belshazzar issued an order to bring in the gold and silver vessels – the ones that Nebuchadnezzar his father ⁹  had confiscated ¹⁰  from the temple in Jerusalem ¹¹  – so that the king and his nobles, together with his wives and his concubines, could drink from them. ¹² 

Daniel 5:16

5:16 However, I have heard ¹³  that you are able to provide interpretations and to decipher knotty problems. Now if you are able to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, you will wear purple and have a golden collar around your neck and be third ¹⁴  ruler in the kingdom.”

Daniel 7:4

7:4 “The first one was like a lion with eagles’ wings. As I watched, its wings were pulled off and it was lifted up from the ground. It was made to stand on two feet like a human being, and a human mind ¹⁵  was given to it. ¹⁶ 

Daniel 7:25

7:25 He will speak words against the Most High.

He will harass ¹⁷  the holy ones of the Most High continually.

His intention ¹⁸  will be to change times established by law. ¹⁹ 

They will be delivered into his hand

For a time, times, ²⁰  and half a time.

Daniel 8:7

8:7 I saw it approaching the ram. It went into a fit of rage against the ram ²¹  and struck it ²²  and broke off its two horns. The ram had no ability to resist it. ²³  The goat hurled the ram ²⁴  to the ground and trampled it. No one could deliver the ram from its power. ²⁵ 

Daniel 9:26

9:26 Now after the sixty-two weeks,

an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. ²⁶ 

As for the city and the sanctuary,

the people of the coming prince will destroy ²⁷  them.

But his end will come speedily ²⁸  like a flood. ²⁹ 

Until the end of the war that has been decreed

there will be destruction.

Daniel 12:1

12:1 “At that time Michael,

the great prince who watches over your people, ³⁰ 

will arise. ³¹ 

There will be a time of distress

unlike any other from the nation’s beginning ³² 

up to that time.

But at that time your own people,

all those whose names are ³³  found written in the book,

will escape.

[1:5]  ¹ tn Heb “a thing of a day in its day.”

[1:5]  ² tn Heb “from the delicacies of the king.”

[1:5]  ³ tn Or “educated.” See HALOT 179 s.v. I גדל.

[1:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “stand before the king.”

[2:35]  ⁵ tn Aram “as one.” For the meaning “without distinction” see the following: F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 36, §64, and p. 93; E. Vogt, Lexicon linguae aramaicae, 60.

[3:3]  ⁹ tc The LXX and Theodotion lack the words “that Nebuchadnezzar had erected.”

[4:32]  ¹³ tn Aram “until.”

[5:2]  ¹⁷ tn Or perhaps, “when he had tasted” (cf. NASB) in the sense of officially initiating the commencement of the banquet. The translation above seems preferable, however, given the clear evidence of inebriation in the context (cf. also CEV “he got drunk and ordered”).

[5:2]  ¹⁸ tn Or “ancestor”; or “predecessor” (also in vv. 11, 13, 18). The Aramaic word translated “father” can on occasion denote these other relationships.

[5:2]  ¹⁹ tn Or “taken.”

[5:2]  ²⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[5:2]  ²¹ sn Making use of sacred temple vessels for an occasion of reveling and drunkenness such as this would have been a religious affront of shocking proportions to the Jewish captives.

[5:16]  ²¹ tn The Aramaic text has also the words “about you.”

[5:16]  ²² tn Or perhaps “one of three rulers,” in the sense of becoming part of a triumvir. So also v. 29.

[7:4]  ²⁵ tn Aram “heart of a man.”

[7:4]  ²⁶ sn The identity of the first animal, derived from v. 17 and the parallels in chap. 2, is Babylon. The reference to the plucking of its wings is probably a reference to the time of Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity (cf. chap. 4). The latter part of v. 4 then describes the restoration of Nebuchadnezzar. The other animals have traditionally been understood to represent respectively Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome, although most of modern scholarship identifies them as Media, Persia, and Greece. For a biblical parallel to the mention of lion, bear, and leopard together, see Hos 13:7-8.

[7:25]  ²⁹ tn Aram “wear out” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV); NASB, NLT “wear down.” The word is a hapax legomenon in biblical Aramaic, but in biblical Hebrew it especially refers to wearing out such things as garments. Here it is translated “harass…continually.”

[7:25]  ³⁰ tn Aram “he will think.”

[7:25]  ³¹ tn Aram “times and law.” The present translation is based on the understanding that the expression is a hendiadys.

[7:25]  ³² sn Although the word times is vocalized in the MT as a plural, it probably should be regarded as a dual. The Masoretes may have been influenced here by the fact that in late Aramaic (and Syriac) the dual forms fall out of use. The meaning would thus be three and a half “times.”

[8:7]  ³³ tn Heb “him.”

[8:7]  ³⁴ tn Heb “the ram.”

[8:7]  ³⁵ tn Heb “stand before him.”

[8:7]  ³⁶ tn Heb “he hurled him.” The referents of both pronouns (the male goat and the ram) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:7]  ³⁷ sn The goat of Daniel’s vision represents Greece; the large horn represents Alexander the Great. The ram stands for Media-Persia. Alexander’s rapid conquest of the Persians involved three battles of major significance which he won against overwhelming odds: Granicus (334 B.C.), Isus (333 B.C.), and Gaugemela (331 B.C.).

[9:26]  ³⁷ sn The expression have nothing is difficult. Presumably it refers to an absence of support or assistance for the anointed one at the time of his “cutting off.” The KJV rendering “but not for himself,” apparently suggesting a vicarious death, cannot be defended.

[9:26]  ³⁸ tc Some witnesses (e.g., the Syriac) understand a passive verb and the preposition עִם (’im, “with) rather than the noun עַם (’am, “people”), thus reading “the city and the sanctuary will be destroyed with the coming prince.”

[9:26]  ³⁹ tn The words “will come speedily” are not in the Hebrew text but have been added in the translation for clarity.

[9:26]  ⁴⁰ sn Flood here is a metaphor for sudden destruction.

[12:1]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “stands over the sons of your people.”

[12:1]  ⁴² tn Heb “will stand up.”

[12:1]  ⁴³ tn Or “from the beginning of a nation.”

[12:1]  ⁴⁴ tn The words “whose names are” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.