Daniel 12:2

12:2 Many of those who sleep

in the dusty ground will awake –

some to everlasting life,

and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence. ¹ 

Daniel 12:8

12:8 I heard, but I did not understand. So I said, “Sir, ²  what will happen after these things?”

Daniel 2:18

2:18 He asked them to pray for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery so that he ³  and his friends would not be destroyed along with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 2:37

Daniel Interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream

2:37 “You, O king, are the king of kings. The God of heaven has granted you sovereignty, power, strength, and honor.

Daniel 10:21

10:21 However, I will first tell you what is written in a dependable book. ⁴  (There is no one who strengthens me against these princes, ⁵  except Michael your ⁶  prince.

Daniel 2:23

2:23 O God of my fathers, I acknowledge and glorify you,

for you have bestowed wisdom and power on me.

Now you have enabled me to understand what I ⁷  requested from you.

For you have enabled me to understand the king’s dilemma.” ⁸ 

Daniel 2:28

2:28 However, there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, ⁹  and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the times to come. ¹⁰  The dream and the visions you had while lying on your bed ¹¹  are as follows.

Daniel 2:44-45

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. 2:45 You saw that a stone was cut from a mountain, but not by human hands; it smashed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold into pieces. The great God has made known to the king what will occur in the future. ¹²  The dream is certain, and its interpretation is reliable.”

Daniel 2:47

2:47 The king replied to Daniel, “Certainly your God is a God of gods and Lord of kings and revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery!”

Daniel 11:4

11:4 Shortly after his rise to power, ¹³  his kingdom will be broken up and distributed toward the four winds of the sky ¹⁴  – but not to his posterity or with the authority he exercised, for his kingdom will be uprooted and distributed to others besides these.

Daniel 12:7

12:7 Then I heard the man clothed in linen who was over the waters of the river as he raised both his right and left hands to the sky ¹⁵  and made an oath by the one who lives forever: “It is for a time, times, and half a time. Then, when the power of the one who shatters ¹⁶  the holy people has been exhausted, all these things will be finished.”

Daniel 3:28-29

3:28 Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed, ¹⁷  “Praised be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent forth his angel ¹⁸  and has rescued his servants who trusted in him, ignoring ¹⁹  the edict of the king and giving up their bodies rather than ²⁰  serve or pay homage to any god other than their God! 3:29 I hereby decree ²¹  that any people, nation, or language group that blasphemes ²²  the god of Shadrach, Meshach, or Abednego will be dismembered and his home reduced to rubble! For there exists no other god who can deliver in this way.”

Daniel 6:7

6:7 To all the supervisors of the kingdom, the prefects, satraps, counselors, and governors it seemed like a good idea for a royal edict to be issued and an interdict to be enforced. For the next thirty days anyone who prays ²³  to any god or human other than you, O king, should be thrown into a den of lions.

Daniel 3:15

3:15 Now if you are ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, trigon, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must bow down and pay homage to the statue that I had made. If you don’t pay homage to it, you will immediately be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire. Now, who is that god who can rescue you from my power?” ²⁴ 

Daniel 6:12

6:12 So they approached the king and said to him, ²⁵  “Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?” The king replied, “That is correct, ²⁶  according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

[12:2]  ¹ sn This verse is the only undisputed reference to a literal resurrection found in the Hebrew Bible.

[12:8]  ² tn Heb “my lord,” a title of polite address.

[2:18]  ³ tn Aram “Daniel.” The proper name is redundant here in English, and has not been included in the translation.

[10:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “a book of truth.” Several English versions treat this as a title of some sort (cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT), although the NAB’s rendering “the truthful book” regards “truth” as an attributive adjective, as does the present translation.

[10:21]  ⁵ tn The word “princes” is supplied for clarity.

[10:21]  ⁶ tn The pronoun is plural in Hebrew, suggesting that Michael is the angelic prince of Daniel and his people.

[2:23]  ⁵ tn Aram “we.” Various explanations have been offered for the plural, but it is probably best understood as the editorial plural; so also with “me” later in this verse.

[2:23]  ⁶ tn Aram “the word of the king.”

[2:28]  ⁶ tn Aram “a revealer of mysteries.” The phrase serves as a quasi-title for God in Daniel.

[2:28]  ⁷ tn Aram “in the latter days.”

[2:28]  ⁸ tn Aram “your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed.”

[2:45]  ⁷ tn Aram “after this.”

[11:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “and when he stands.”

[11:4]  ⁹ tn Or “the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

[12:7]  ⁹ tn Or “to the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

[12:7]  ¹⁰ tc The present translation reads יַד־נֹפֵץ (yad-nofets, “hand of one who shatters”) rather than the MT נַפֵּץ־יַד (nappets-yad, “to shatter the hand”).

[3:28]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “answered and said.”

[3:28]  ¹¹ sn The king identifies the “son of the gods” (v. 25) as an angel. Comparable Hebrew expressions are used elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible for the members of God’s angelic assembly (see Gen 6:2, 4; Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7; Pss 29:1; 89:6). An angel later comes to rescue Daniel from the lions (Dan 6:22).

[3:28]  ¹² tn Aram “they changed” or “violated.”

[3:28]  ¹³ tn Aram “so that they might not.”

[3:29]  ¹¹ tn Aram “from me is placed an edict.”

[3:29]  ¹² tn Aram “speaks negligence.”

[6:7]  ¹² tn Aram “prays a prayer.”

[3:15]  ¹³ tn Aram “hand.” So also in v. 17.

[6:12]  ¹⁴ tc The MT also has “about the edict of the king,” but this phrase is absent in the LXX and the Syriac. The present translation deletes the expression.

[6:12]  ¹⁵ tn Aram “the word is true.”