Daniel 10:3

10:3 I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips, ¹  nor did I anoint myself with oil ²  until the end of those three weeks.

Daniel 9:2

9:2 in the first year of his reign ³  I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books ⁴  that, according to the word of the LORD ⁵  disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem ⁶  were seventy in number.

[10:3]  ¹ tn Heb “mouth.”

[10:3]  ² 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.

[9:2]  ³ tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.

[9:2]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.