Daniel 2:13

2:13 So a decree went out, and the wise men were about ¹  to be executed. They also sought ²  Daniel and his friends so that they could be executed.

Daniel 2:16

2:16 So Daniel went in and ³  requested the king to grant him time, that he might disclose the interpretation to the king.

Daniel 6:11

6:11 Then those officials who had gone to the king ⁴  came by collusion and found Daniel praying and asking for help before his God.

Daniel 2:18

2:18 He asked them to pray for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery so that he ⁵  and his friends would not be destroyed along with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 2:49

2:49 And at Daniel’s request, the king ⁶  appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the administration of the province of Babylon. Daniel himself served in the king’s court. ⁷ 

Daniel 7:16

7:16 I approached one of those standing nearby and asked him about the meaning ⁸  of all this. So he spoke with me and revealed ⁹  to me the interpretation of the vision: ¹⁰ 

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 ¹¹  requested from you.

For you have enabled me to understand the king’s dilemma.” ¹² 

Daniel 4:36

4:36 At that time my sanity returned to me. I was restored ¹³  to the honor of my kingdom, and my splendor returned to me. My ministers and my nobles were seeking me out, and I was reinstated ¹⁴  over my kingdom. I became even greater than before.

Daniel 6:4

6:4 Consequently the supervisors and satraps were trying to find ¹⁵  some pretext against Daniel in connection with administrative matters. ¹⁶  But they were unable to find any such damaging evidence, ¹⁷  because he was trustworthy and guilty of no negligence or corruption. ¹⁸ 

Daniel 6:13

6:13 Then they said to the king, “Daniel, who is one of the captives ¹⁹  from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the edict that you issued. Three times daily he offers his prayer.” ²⁰ 

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 ²¹  to any god or human other than you, O king, should be thrown into a den of lions.

Daniel 6:12

6:12 So they approached the king and said to him, ²²  “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, ²³  according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

[2:13]  ¹ tn The Aramaic participle is used here to express the imminent future.

[2:13]  ² tn The impersonal active plural (“they sought”) of the Aramaic verb could also be translated as an English passive: “Daniel and his friends were sought” (cf. NAB).

[2:16]  ³ tc Theodotion and the Syriac lack the words “went in and.”

[6:11]  ⁵ tn Aram “those men”; the referent (the administrative officials who had earlier approached the king about the edict) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:18]  ⁷ tn Aram “Daniel.” The proper name is redundant here in English, and has not been included in the translation.

[2:49]  ⁹ tn Aram “and Daniel sought from the king and he appointed.”

[2:49]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “was at the gate of the king.”

[7:16]  ¹¹ tn Aram “what is certain.”

[7:16]  ¹² tn Aram “and made known.”

[7:16]  ¹³ tn Aram “matter,” but the matter at hand is of course the vision.

[2:23]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ tn Aram “the word of the king.”

[4:36]  ¹⁵ tc The translation reads הַדְרֵת (hadret, “I returned”) rather than the MT הַדְרִי (hadri, “my honor”); cf. Theodotion.

[4:36]  ¹⁶ tc The translation reads הָתְקְנֵת (hotqÿnet, “I was established”) rather than the MT הָתְקְנַת (hotqÿnat, “it was established”). As it stands, the MT makes no sense here.

[6:4]  ¹⁷ tn Aram “looking to find.”

[6:4]  ¹⁸ tn Aram “from the side of the kingdom.”

[6:4]  ¹⁹ tn Aram “pretext and corruption.”

[6:4]  ²⁰ tn Aram “no negligence or corruption was found in him.” The Greek version of Theodotion lacks the phrase “and no negligence or corruption was found in him.”

[6:13]  ¹⁹ tn Aram “from the sons of the captivity [of].”

[6:13]  ²⁰ tn Aram “prays his prayer.”

[6:7]  ²¹ tn Aram “prays a prayer.”

[6:12]  ²³ 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]  ²⁴ tn Aram “the word is true.”