Daniel 2:10

2:10 The wise men replied to the king, “There is no man on earth who is able to disclose the king’s secret, ¹  for no king, regardless of his position and power, has ever requested such a thing from any magician, astrologer, or wise man.

Daniel 3:10

3:10 You have issued an edict, O king, that everyone must bow down and pay homage to the golden statue when they hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, trigon, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music.

Daniel 5:5

5:5 At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared ²  and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. ³  The king was watching the back ⁴  of the hand that was writing.

Daniel 7:4

7:4 “The first one was like a lion with eagles’ wings. As I watched, its wings were pulled off and it was lifted up from the ground. It was made to stand on two feet like a human being, and a human mind ⁵  was given to it. ⁶ 

Daniel 5:7

5:7 The king called out loudly ⁷  to summon ⁸  the astrologers, wise men, and diviners. The king proclaimed ⁹  to the wise men of Babylon that anyone who could read this inscription and disclose its interpretation would be clothed in purple ¹⁰  and have a golden collar ¹¹  placed on his neck and be third ruler in the kingdom.

Daniel 6:12

6:12 So they approached the king and said to him, ¹²  “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, ¹³  according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

[2:10]  ¹ tn Aram “matter, thing.”

[5:5]  ² tn Aram “came forth.”

[5:5]  ³ sn The mention of the lampstand in this context is of interest because it suggests that the writing was in clear view.

[5:5]  ⁴ tn While Aramaic פַּס (pas) can mean the palm of the hand, here it seems to be the back of the hand that is intended.

[7:4]  ³ tn Aram “heart of a man.”

[7:4]  ⁴ sn The identity of the first animal, derived from v. 17 and the parallels in chap. 2, is Babylon. The reference to the plucking of its wings is probably a reference to the time of Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity (cf. chap. 4). The latter part of v. 4 then describes the restoration of Nebuchadnezzar. The other animals have traditionally been understood to represent respectively Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome, although most of modern scholarship identifies them as Media, Persia, and Greece. For a biblical parallel to the mention of lion, bear, and leopard together, see Hos 13:7-8.

[5:7]  ⁴ tn Aram “in strength.”

[5:7]  ⁵ tn Aram “cause to enter.”

[5:7]  ⁶ tn Aram “answered and said.”

[5:7]  ⁷ sn Purple was a color associated with royalty in the ancient world.

[5:7]  ⁸ tn The term translated “golden collar” here probably refers to something more substantial than merely a gold chain (cf. NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT) or necklace (cf. NASB).

[6:12]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Aram “the word is true.”