Daniel 2:39

2:39 Now after you another kingdom ¹  will arise, one inferior to yours. Then a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule in all the earth.

Daniel 4:11

4:11 The tree grew large and strong.

Its top reached far into the sky;

it could be seen ²  from the borders of all the land. ³ 

Daniel 7:17

7:17 ‘These large beasts, which are four in number, represent four kings who will arise from the earth.

Daniel 4:35

4:35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. ⁴ 

He does as he wishes with the army of heaven

and with those who inhabit the earth.

No one slaps ⁵  his hand

and says to him, ‘What have you done?’

Daniel 4:1

4:1 (3:31) ⁶  “King Nebuchadnezzar, to all peoples, nations, and language groups that live in all the land: Peace and prosperity! ⁷ 

Daniel 4:10

4:10 Here are the visions of my mind ⁸  while I was on my bed.

While I was watching,

there was a tree in the middle of the land. ⁹ 

It was enormously tall. ¹⁰ 

Daniel 4:20

4:20 The tree that you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached to the sky, and which could be seen ¹¹  in all the land,

Daniel 4:22

4:22 it is you, ¹²  O king! For you have become great and strong. Your greatness is such that it reaches to heaven, and your authority to the ends of the earth.

Daniel 6:25

6:25 Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and language groups who were living in all the land: “Peace and prosperity! ¹³ 

Daniel 7:23

7:23 “This is what he told me: ¹⁴ 

‘The fourth beast means that there will be a fourth kingdom on earth

that will differ from all the other kingdoms.

It will devour all the earth

and will trample and crush it.

Daniel 4:15

4:15 But leave its taproot ¹⁵  in the ground,

with a band of iron and bronze around it ¹⁶ 

surrounded by the grass of the field.

Let it become damp with the dew of the sky,

and let it live with ¹⁷  the animals in the grass of the land.

Daniel 7:4

7:4 “The first one was like a lion with eagles’ wings. As I watched, its wings were pulled off and it was lifted up from the ground. It was made to stand on two feet like a human being, and a human mind ¹⁸  was given to it. ¹⁹ 

Daniel 2:35

2:35 Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were broken in pieces without distinction ²⁰  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.

[2:39]  ¹ sn The identity of the first kingdom is clearly Babylon. The identification of the following three kingdoms is disputed. The common view is that they represent Media, Persia, and Greece. Most conservative scholars identify them as Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome.

[4:11]  ² tn Aram “its sight.” So also v. 17.

[4:11]  ³ tn Or “to the end of all the earth” (so KJV, ASV); NCV, CEV “from anywhere on earth.”

[4:35]  ³ tc The present translation reads כְּלָא (kÿla’), with many medieval Hebrew MSS, rather than כְּלָה (kÿlah) of BHS.

[4:35]  ⁴ tn Aram “strikes against.”

[4:1]  ⁴ sn Beginning with 4:1, the verse numbers through 4:37 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Aramaic text (BHS), with 4:1 ET = 3:31 AT, 4:2 ET = 3:32 AT, 4:3 ET = 3:33 AT, 4:4 ET = 4:1 AT, etc., through 4:37 ET = 4:34 AT. Thus Dan 3:31-33 of the Aramaic text appears as Dan 4:1-3 in the English Bible, and the corresponding verses of ch. 4 differ accordingly. In spite of the division of the Aramaic text, a good case can be made that 3:31-33 AT (= 4:1-3 ET) is actually the introduction to ch. 4.

[4:1]  ⁵ tn Aram “May your peace increase!”

[4:10]  ⁵ tc The LXX lacks the first two words (Aram “the visions of my head”) of the Aramaic text.

[4:10]  ⁶ tn Instead of “in the middle of the land,” some English versions render this phrase “a tree at the center of the earth” (NRSV); NAB, CEV “of the world”; NLT “in the middle of the earth.” The Hebrew phrase can have either meaning.

[4:10]  ⁷ tn Aram “its height was great.”

[4:20]  ⁶ tn Aram “its sight.”

[4:22]  ⁷ sn Much of modern scholarship views this chapter as a distortion of traditions that were originally associated with Nabonidus rather than with Nebuchadnezzar. A Qumran text, the Prayer of Nabonidus, is often cited for parallels to these events.

[6:25]  ⁸ tn Aram “May your peace be increased!”

[7:23]  ⁹ tn Aram “thus he said.”

[4:15]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “the stock of its root.” So also v. 23. The implication here is that although the tree is chopped down, it is not killed. Its life-giving root is spared. The application to Nebuchadnezzar is obvious.

[4:15]  ¹¹ sn The function of the band of iron and bronze is not entirely clear, but it may have had to do with preventing the splitting or further deterioration of the portion of the tree that was left after being chopped down. By application it would then refer to the preservation of Nebuchadnezzar’s life during the time of his insanity.

[4:15]  ¹² tn Aram “its lot be.”

[7:4]  ¹¹ tn Aram “heart of a man.”

[7:4]  ¹² sn The identity of the first animal, derived from v. 17 and the parallels in chap. 2, is Babylon. The reference to the plucking of its wings is probably a reference to the time of Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity (cf. chap. 4). The latter part of v. 4 then describes the restoration of Nebuchadnezzar. The other animals have traditionally been understood to represent respectively Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome, although most of modern scholarship identifies them as Media, Persia, and Greece. For a biblical parallel to the mention of lion, bear, and leopard together, see Hos 13:7-8.

[2:35]  ¹² 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.