Daniel 11:18

11:18 Then he will turn his attention ¹  to the coastal regions and will capture many of them. But a commander ²  will bring his shameful conduct to a halt; in addition, ³  he will make him pay for his shameful conduct. ⁴ 

Daniel 11:1

11:1 And in the first year of Darius the Mede, I ⁵  stood to strengthen him and to provide protection for him.)

Daniel 11:17

11:17 His intention ⁶  will be to come with the strength of his entire kingdom, and he will form alliances. ⁷  He will give the king of the south ⁸  a daughter ⁹  in marriage in order to destroy the kingdom, but it will not turn out to his advantage.

Daniel 11:45

11:45 He will pitch his royal tents between the seas ¹⁰  toward the beautiful holy mountain. But he will come to his end, with no one to help him.

Daniel 9:11

9:11 “All Israel has broken ¹¹  your law and turned away by not obeying you. ¹²  Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened ¹³  in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you. ¹⁴ 

Daniel 9:26

9:26 Now after the sixty-two weeks,

an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. ¹⁵ 

As for the city and the sanctuary,

the people of the coming prince will destroy ¹⁶  them.

But his end will come speedily ¹⁷  like a flood. ¹⁸ 

Until the end of the war that has been decreed

there will be destruction.

Daniel 10:1

An Angel Appears to Daniel

10:1 ¹⁹ In the third ²⁰  year of King Cyrus of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel (who was also called Belteshazzar). This message was true and concerned a great war. ²¹  He understood the message and gained insight by the vision.

[11:18]  ¹ tn Heb “his face.” See v. 19 as well.

[11:18]  ² sn The commander is probably the Roman commander, Lucius Cornelius Scipio.

[11:18]  ³ tn The Hebrew here is difficult in that the negative בִּלְתִּי (biltiy, “not”) is used in an unusual way. The sense is not entirely clear.

[11:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “his shameful conduct he will return to him.”

[11:1]  ⁵ sn The antecedent of the pronoun “I” is the angel, not Daniel. The traditional chapter division at this point, and the presence of a chronological note in the verse similar to ones used elsewhere in the book to position Daniel’s activities in relation to imperial affairs, sometimes lead to confusion on this matter.

[11:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he will set his face.” Cf. vv. 18, 19.

[11:17]  ¹⁰ tc The present translation reads מֵישָׁרִים (mesharim, “alliances”) for the MT וִישָׁרִים (viysharim, “uprightness”).

[11:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king of the south) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:17]  ¹² tn Heb “the daughter of the women.”

[11:45]  ¹³ sn Presumably seas refers to the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea.

[9:11]  ¹⁷ tn Or “transgressed.” The Hebrew verb has the primary sense of crossing a boundary, in this case, God’s law.

[9:11]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “by not paying attention to your voice.”

[9:11]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the curse and the oath which is written.” The term “curse” refers here to the judgments threatened in the Mosaic law (see Deut 28) for rebellion. The expression “the curse and the oath” is probably a hendiadys (cf. Num 5:21; Neh 10:29) referring to the fact that the covenant with its threatened judgments was ratified by solemn oath and made legally binding upon the covenant community.

[9:11]  ²⁰ tn Heb “him.”

[9:26]  ²¹ 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]  ²² 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]  ²³ tn The words “will come speedily” are not in the Hebrew text but have been added in the translation for clarity.

[9:26]  ²⁴ sn Flood here is a metaphor for sudden destruction.

[10:1]  ²⁵ sn This chapter begins the final unit in the book of Daniel, consisting of chapters 10-12. The traditional chapter divisions to some extent obscure the relationship of these chapters.

[10:1]  ²⁶ tc The LXX has “first.”

[10:1]  ²⁷ tn The meaning of the Hebrew word צָבָא (tsava’) is uncertain in this context. The word most often refers to an army or warfare. It may also mean “hard service,” and many commentators take that to be the sense here (i.e., “the service was great”). The present translation assumes the reference to be to the spiritual conflicts described, for example, in 10:16–11:1.