Daniel 2:35

2:35 Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were broken in pieces without distinction ¹  and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors that the wind carries away. Not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a large mountain that filled the entire earth.

Daniel 3:29

3:29 I hereby decree ²  that any people, nation, or language group that blasphemes ³  the god of Shadrach, Meshach, or Abednego will be dismembered and his home reduced to rubble! For there exists no other god who can deliver in this way.”

Daniel 4:23

4:23 As for the king seeing a holy sentinel coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave its taproot in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it, surrounded by the grass of the field. Let it become damp with the dew of the sky, and let it live with the wild animals, until seven periods of time go by for him’ –

Daniel 4:25

4:25 You will be driven ⁴  from human society, ⁵  and you will live ⁶  with the wild animals. You will be fed ⁷  grass like oxen, ⁸  and you will become damp with the dew of the sky. Seven periods of time will pass by for you, before ⁹  you understand that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms and gives them to whomever he wishes.

Daniel 5:21

5:21 He was driven from human society, his mind ¹⁰  was changed to that of an animal, he lived ¹¹  with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until he came to understand that the most high God rules over human kingdoms, and he appoints over them whomever he wishes.

Daniel 6:10

6:10 When Daniel realized ¹²  that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows ¹³  in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. ¹⁴  Three ¹⁵  times daily he was ¹⁶  kneeling ¹⁷  and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.

Daniel 7:7

7:7 “After these things, as I was watching in the night visions ¹⁸  a fourth beast appeared – one dreadful, terrible, and very strong. ¹⁹  It had two large rows ²⁰  of iron teeth. It devoured and crushed, and anything that was left it trampled with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that came before it, and it had ten horns.

[2:35]  ¹ tn Aram “as one.” For the meaning “without distinction” see the following: F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 36, §64, and p. 93; E. Vogt, Lexicon linguae aramaicae, 60.

[3:29]  ² tn Aram “from me is placed an edict.”

[3:29]  ³ tn Aram “speaks negligence.”

[4:25]  ³ tn The Aramaic indefinite active plural is used here like the English passive. So also in v. 28, 29,32.

[4:25]  ⁴ tn Aram “from mankind.” So also in v. 32.

[4:25]  ⁵ tn Aram “your dwelling will be.” So also in v. 32.

[4:25]  ⁶ tn Or perhaps “be made to eat.”

[4:25]  ⁷ sn Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity has features that are associated with the mental disorder known as boanthropy, in which the person so afflicted imagines himself to be an ox or a similar animal and behaves accordingly.

[4:25]  ⁸ tn Aram “until.”

[5:21]  ⁴ tn Aram “heart.”

[5:21]  ⁵ tn Aram “his dwelling.”

[6:10]  ⁵ tn Aram “knew.”

[6:10]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tc Read with several medieval Hebrew MSS and printed editions הֲוָה (havah) rather than the MT הוּא (hu’).

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

[7:7]  ⁶ tn The Aramaic text has also “and behold.” So also in vv. 8, 13.

[7:7]  ⁷ sn The fourth animal differs from the others in that it is nondescript. Apparently it was so fearsome that Daniel could find nothing with which to compare it. Attempts to identify this animal as an elephant or other known creature are conjectural.

[7:7]  ⁸ tn The Aramaic word for “teeth” is dual rather than plural, suggesting two rows of teeth.