Daniel 2:11

2:11 What the king is asking is too difficult, and no one exists who can disclose it to the king, except for the gods – but they don’t live among mortals!” ¹ 

Daniel 4:12

4:12 Its foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful;

on it there was food enough for all.

Under it the wild animals ²  used to seek shade,

and in its branches the birds of the sky used to nest.

All creatures ³  used to feed themselves from it.

Daniel 7:5

7:5 “Then ⁴  a second beast appeared, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and there were three ribs ⁵  in its mouth between its teeth. ⁶  It was told, ⁷  ‘Get up and devour much flesh!’

[2:11]  ¹ tn Aram “whose dwelling is not with flesh.”

[4:12]  ² tn Aram “the beasts of the field.”

[4:12]  ³ tn Aram “all flesh.”

[7:5]  ³ tn Aram “and behold.”

[7:5]  ⁴ sn The three ribs held securely in the mouth of the bear, perhaps representing Media-Persia, apparently symbolize military conquest, but the exact identity of the “ribs” is not clear. Possibly it is a reference to the Persian conquest of Lydia, Egypt, and Babylonia.

[7:5]  ⁵ tc The LXX lacks the phrase “between its teeth.”

[7:5]  ⁶ tn Aram “and thus they were saying to it.”