Daniel 10:14

10:14 Now I have come to help you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to future days.”

Daniel 4:31

4:31 While these words were still on the king’s lips, ¹  a voice came down from heaven: “It is hereby announced to you, ²  King Nebuchadnezzar, that your kingdom has been removed from you!

Daniel 11:27

11:27 These two kings, their minds ³  filled with evil intentions, will trade ⁴  lies with one another at the same table. But it will not succeed, for there is still an end at the appointed time.

Daniel 11:35

11:35 Even some of the wise will stumble, resulting in their refinement, purification, and cleansing until the time of the end, for it is still for the appointed time.

Daniel 11:2

11:2 Now I will tell you the truth.

The Angel Gives a Message to Daniel

“Three ⁵  more kings will arise for Persia. Then a fourth ⁶  king will be unusually rich, ⁷  more so than all who preceded him. When he has amassed power through his riches, he will stir up everyone against ⁸  the kingdom of Greece.

[4:31]  ¹ tn Aram “in the mouth of the king.”

[4:31]  ² tn Aram “to you they say.”

[11:27]  ¹ tn Heb “heart.” So also in v. 28.

[11:27]  ² tn Heb “speak.”

[11:2]  ¹ sn Perhaps these three more kings are Cambyses (ca. 530-522 B.C.), Pseudo-Smerdis (ca. 522 B.C.), and Darius I Hystaspes (ca. 522-486 B.C.).

[11:2]  ² sn This fourth king is Xerxes I (ca. 486-465 B.C.). The following reference to one of his chiefs apparently has in view Seleucus Nicator.

[11:2]  ³ tn Heb “rich with great riches.”

[11:2]  ⁴ tn The text is difficult. The Hebrew has here אֶת (’et), the marker of a definite direct object. As it stands, this would suggest the meaning that “he will arouse everyone, that is, the kingdom of Greece.” The context, however, seems to suggest the idea that this Persian king will arouse in hostility against Greece the constituent elements of his own empire. This requires supplying the word “against,” which is not actually present in the Hebrew text.