Daniel 2:13-14
Context2:13 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.
2:14 Then Daniel spoke with prudent counsel 3 to Arioch, who was in charge of the king’s executioners and who had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon.


[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).
[2:14] 3 tn Aram “returned prudence and counsel.” The expression is a hendiadys.