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 4:6

4:6 So I issued an order ²  for all the wise men of Babylon to be brought ³  before me so that they could make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

Daniel 4:20-21

4:20 The tree that you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached to the sky, and which could be seen ⁴  in all the land, 4:21 whose foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful, and from which there was food available for all, under whose branches wild animals ⁵  used to live, and in whose branches birds of the sky used to nest –

Daniel 5:8

5:8 So all the king’s wise men came in, but they were unable to read the writing or to make known its ⁶  interpretation to the king.

Daniel 6:1

Daniel is Thrown into a Lions’ Den

6:1 It seemed like a good idea to Darius ⁷  to appoint over the kingdom 120 satraps ⁸  who would be in charge of the entire kingdom.

Daniel 6:5

6:5 So these men concluded, ⁹  “We won’t find any pretext against this man Daniel unless it is ¹⁰  in connection with the law of his God.”

Daniel 7:16

7:16 I approached one of those standing nearby and asked him about the meaning ¹¹  of all this. So he spoke with me and revealed ¹²  to me the interpretation of the vision: ¹³ 

Daniel 2:35

2:35 Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were broken in pieces without distinction ¹⁴  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 ¹⁵  that any people, nation, or language group that blasphemes ¹⁶  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 6:12

6:12 So they approached the king and said to him, ¹⁷  “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, ¹⁸  according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

[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.

[4:6]  ² tn Aram “from me there was placed a decree.”

[4:6]  ³ tn The Aramaic infinitive here is active.

[4:20]  ³ tn Aram “its sight.”

[4:21]  ⁴ tn Aram “the beasts of the field” (also in vv. 23, 25, 32).

[5:8]  ⁵ tc Read וּפִשְׁרֵהּ (ufishreh) with the Qere rather than וּפִשְׁרָא (ufishra’) of the Kethib.

[6:1]  ⁶ tn Aram “It was pleasing before Darius.”

[6:1]  ⁷ tn This is a technical term for an official placed in charge of a region of the empire (cf. KJV, NLT “prince[s]”; NCV, TEV “governors”). These satraps were answerable to a supervisor, who in turn answered to Darius.

[6:5]  ⁷ tn Aram “were saying.”

[6:5]  ⁸ tn Aram “unless we find [it] against him.”

[7:16]  ⁸ tn Aram “what is certain.”

[7:16]  ⁹ tn Aram “and made known.”

[7:16]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “matter,” but the matter at hand is of course the vision.

[2:35]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “from me is placed an edict.”

[3:29]  ¹¹ tn Aram “speaks negligence.”

[6:12]  ¹¹ 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]  ¹² tn Aram “the word is true.”