Daniel 11:19

11:19 He will then turn his attention to the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall, not to be found again.

Daniel 11:2

11:2 Now I will tell you the truth.

The Angel Gives a Message to Daniel

“Three ¹  more kings will arise for Persia. Then a fourth ²  king will be unusually rich, ³  more so than all who preceded him. When he has amassed power through his riches, he will stir up everyone against ⁴  the kingdom of Greece.

Daniel 12:1-2

12:1 “At that time Michael,

the great prince who watches over your people, ⁵ 

will arise. ⁶ 

There will be a time of distress

unlike any other from the nation’s beginning ⁷ 

up to that time.

But at that time your own people,

all those whose names are ⁸  found written in the book,

will escape.

12:2 Many of those who sleep

in the dusty ground will awake –

some to everlasting life,

and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence. ⁹ 

Daniel 1:3

1:3 The king commanded ¹⁰  Ashpenaz, ¹¹  who was in charge of his court officials, ¹²  to choose ¹³  some of the Israelites who were of royal and noble descent ¹⁴  –

Proverbs 19:21

19:21 There are many plans ¹⁵  in a person’s mind, ¹⁶ 

but it ¹⁷  is the counsel ¹⁸  of the Lord which will stand.

Ezekiel 4:3

4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan ¹⁹  and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign ²⁰  for the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4:7

4:7 You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

Ezekiel 25:2

25:2 “Son of man, turn toward ²¹  the Ammonites ²²  and prophesy against them.

Luke 9:51

Rejection in Samaria

9:51 Now when ²³  the days drew near ²⁴  for him to be taken up, ²⁵  Jesus ²⁶  set out resolutely ²⁷  to go to Jerusalem. ²⁸ 

[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.

[12:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “stands over the sons of your people.”

[12:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “will stand up.”

[12:1]  ⁷ tn Or “from the beginning of a nation.”

[12:1]  ⁸ tn The words “whose names are” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.

[12:2]  ⁹ sn This verse is the only undisputed reference to a literal resurrection found in the Hebrew Bible.

[1:3]  ¹⁰ tn Or “gave orders to.” Heb “said to.”

[1:3]  ¹¹ sn It is possible that the word Ashpenaz is not a proper name at all, but a general term for “innkeeper.” See J. J. Collins, Daniel (Hermeneia), 127, n. 9. However, the ancient versions understand the term to be a name, and the present translation (along with most English versions) understands the word in this way.

[1:3]  ¹² sn The word court official (Hebrew saris) need not mean “eunuch” in a technical sense (see Gen 37:36, where the term refers to Potiphar, who had a wife), although in the case of the book of Daniel there was in Jewish literature a common tradition to that effect. On the OT usage of this word see HALOT 769-70 s.v. סָרֹיס.

[1:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “bring.”

[1:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and from the seed of royalty and from the nobles.”

[19:21]  ¹⁵ sn The plans (from the Hebrew verb חָשַׁב [khashav], “to think; to reckon; to devise”) in the human heart are many. But only those which God approves will succeed.

[19:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in the heart of a man” (cf. NAB, NIV). Here “heart” is used for the seat of thoughts, plans, and reasoning, so the translation uses “mind.” In contemporary English “heart” is more often associated with the seat of emotion than with the seat of planning and reasoning.

[19:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “but the counsel of the Lord, it will stand.” The construction draws attention to the “counsel of the Lord”; it is an independent nominative absolute, and the resumptive independent pronoun is the formal subject of the verb.

[19:21]  ¹⁸ tn The antithetical parallelism pairs “counsel” with “plans.” “Counsel of the Lord” (עֲצַת יְהוָה, ’atsat yehvah) is literally “advice” or “counsel” with the connotation of “plan” in this context (cf. NIV, NRSV, NLT “purpose”; NCV “plan”; TEV “the Lord’s will”).

[4:3]  ¹⁹ tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.

[4:3]  ²⁰ tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.

[25:2]  ²¹ tn Heb “set your face toward.”

[25:2]  ²² tn Heb “the sons of Ammon.” Ammon was located to the east of Israel.

[9:51]  ²³ tn Grk “And it happened that when.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[9:51]  ²⁴ tn Grk “the days were being fulfilled.” There is literary design here. This starts what has been called in the Gospel of Luke the “Jerusalem Journey.” It is not a straight-line trip, but a journey to meet his fate (Luke 13:31-35).

[9:51]  ²⁵ sn Taken up is a reference to Jesus’ upcoming return to heaven by crucifixion and resurrection (compare Luke 9:31). This term was used in the LXX of Elijah’s departure in 2 Kgs 2:9.

[9:51]  ²⁶ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:51]  ²⁷ tn Grk “he set his face,” a Semitic idiom that speaks of a firm, unshakable resolve to do something (Gen 31:21; Isa 50:7).

[9:51]  ²⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.