Daniel 2:22

2:22 he reveals deep and hidden things.

He knows what is in the darkness,

and light resides with him.

Daniel 2:27-29

2:27 Daniel replied to the king, “The mystery that the king is asking about is such that no wise men, astrologers, magicians, or diviners can possibly disclose it to the king. 2:28 However, there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, ¹  and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the times to come. ²  The dream and the visions you had while lying on your bed ³  are as follows.

2:29 “As for you, O king, while you were in your bed your thoughts turned to future things. ⁴  The revealer of mysteries has made known to you what will take place.

Daniel 4:9

4:9 saying, “Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, in whom I know there to be a spirit of the holy gods and whom no mystery baffles, consider ⁵  my dream that I saw and set forth its interpretation!

Daniel 4:2

4:2 I am delighted to tell you about the signs and wonders that the most high God has done for me.

Daniel 6:8-12

6:8 Now let the king issue a written interdict ⁶  so that it cannot be altered, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed. ⁷  6:9 So King Darius issued the written interdict.

6:10 When Daniel realized ⁸  that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows ⁹  in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. ¹⁰  Three ¹¹  times daily he was ¹²  kneeling ¹³  and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously. 6:11 Then those officials who had gone to the king ¹⁴  came by collusion and found Daniel praying and asking for help before his God. 6:12 So they approached the king and said to him, ¹⁵  “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, ¹⁶  according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

Psalms 25:14

25:14 The Lord’s loyal followers receive his guidance, ¹⁷ 

and he reveals his covenantal demands to them. ¹⁸ 

Amos 3:7

3:7 Certainly the sovereign Lord does nothing without first revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.

Amos 3:1

Every Effect has its Cause

3:1 Listen, you Israelites, to this message which the Lord is proclaiming against ¹⁹  you! This message is for the entire clan I brought up ²⁰  from the land of Egypt:

Colossians 2:9-10

2:9 For in him all the fullness of deity lives ²¹  in bodily form, 2:10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

[2:28]  ¹ tn Aram “a revealer of mysteries.” The phrase serves as a quasi-title for God in Daniel.

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

[2:28]  ³ tn Aram “your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed.”

[2:29]  ⁴ tn Aram “your thoughts upon your bed went up to what will be after this.”

[4:9]  ⁵ tc The present translation assumes the reading חֲזִי (khazi, “consider”) rather than the MT חֶזְוֵי (khezvey, “visions”). The MT implies that the king required Daniel to disclose both the dream and its interpretation, as in chapter 2. But in the following verses Nebuchadnezzar recounts his dream, while Daniel presents only its interpretation.

[6:8]  ⁶ tn Aram “establish a written interdict and inscribe a written decree.”

[6:8]  ⁷ tn Or “removed.”

[6:10]  ⁸ tn Aram “knew.”

[6:10]  ⁹ sn In later rabbinic thought this verse was sometimes cited as a proof text for the notion that one should pray only in a house with windows. See b. Berakhot 34b.

[6:10]  ¹⁰ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[6:10]  ¹¹ sn This is apparently the only specific mention in the OT of prayer being regularly offered three times a day. The practice was probably not unique to Daniel, however.

[6:10]  ¹² tc Read with several medieval Hebrew MSS and printed editions הֲוָה (havah) rather than the MT הוּא (hu’).

[6:10]  ¹³ tn Aram “kneeling on his knees” (so NASB).

[6:11]  ¹⁴ 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.

[6:12]  ¹⁵ 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]  ¹⁶ tn Aram “the word is true.”

[25:14]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the advice of the Lord belongs to those who fear him.”

[25:14]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and his covenant, to make them know.”

[3:1]  ¹⁹ tn Or “about.”

[3:1]  ²⁰ tn One might expect a third person verb form (“he brought up”), since the Lord apparently refers to himself in the third person in the preceding sentence. This first person form, however, serves to connect this message to the earlier indictment (2:10) and anticipates the words of the following verse.

[2:9]  ²¹ sn In him all the fullness of deity lives. The present tense in this verse (“lives”) is significant. Again, as was stated in the note on 1:19, this is not a temporary dwelling, but a permanent one. Paul’s point is polemical against the idea that the fullness of God dwells anywhere else, as the Gnostics believed, except in Christ alone. At the incarnation, the second person of the Trinity assumed humanity, and is forever the God-man.