Daniel 3:23

3:23 But those three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell into the furnace ¹  of blazing fire while still securely bound. ² 

Daniel 7:24

7:24 The ten horns

mean that ten kings will arise from that kingdom.

Another king will arise after them,

but he will be different from the earlier ones.

He will humiliate ³  three kings.

Daniel 3:24

God Delivers His Servants

3:24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was startled and quickly got up. He said to his ministers, “Wasn’t it three men that we tied up and threw ⁴  into ⁵  the fire?” They replied to the king, “For sure, O king.”

Daniel 6:2

6:2 Over them would be three supervisors, one of whom was Daniel. These satraps were accountable ⁶  to them, so that the king’s interests might not incur damage.

Daniel 6:13

6:13 Then they said to the king, “Daniel, who is one of the captives ⁷  from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the edict that you issued. Three times daily he offers his prayer.” ⁸ 

Daniel 7:5

7:5 “Then ⁹  a second beast appeared, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and there were three ribs ¹⁰  in its mouth between its teeth. ¹¹  It was told, ¹²  ‘Get up and devour much flesh!’

Daniel 7:8

7:8 “As I was contemplating the horns, another horn – a small one – came up between them, and three of the former horns were torn out by the roots to make room for it. ¹³  This horn had eyes resembling human eyes and a mouth speaking arrogant ¹⁴  things.

Daniel 7:20

7:20 I also wanted to know ¹⁵  the meaning of the ten horns on its head, and of that other horn which came up and before which three others fell. This was the horn that had eyes ¹⁶  and a mouth speaking arrogant things, whose appearance was more formidable than the others. ¹⁷ 

Daniel 6:10

6:10 When Daniel realized ¹⁸  that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows ¹⁹  in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. ²⁰  Three ²¹  times daily he was ²²  kneeling ²³  and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.

[3:23]  ¹ tn Aram “into the midst of the furnace.” For stylistic reasons the words “the midst of” have been left untranslated.

[3:23]  ² sn The deuterocanonical writings known as The Prayer of Azariah and The Song of the Three present at this point a confession and petition for God’s forgiveness and a celebration of God’s grace for the three Jewish youths in the fiery furnace. Though not found in the Hebrew/Aramaic text of Daniel, these compositions do appear in the ancient Greek versions.

[7:24]  ³ tn Or “subjugate”; KJV, NASB, NIV “subdue”; ASV, NRSV “put down.”

[3:24]  ⁵ tn Aram “we threw…bound.”

[3:24]  ⁶ tn Aram “into the midst of.”

[6:2]  ⁷ tn Aram “giving an account.”

[6:13]  ⁹ tn Aram “from the sons of the captivity [of].”

[6:13]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “prays his prayer.”

[7:5]  ¹¹ tn Aram “and behold.”

[7:5]  ¹² sn The three ribs held securely in the mouth of the bear, perhaps representing Media-Persia, apparently symbolize military conquest, but the exact identity of the “ribs” is not clear. Possibly it is a reference to the Persian conquest of Lydia, Egypt, and Babylonia.

[7:5]  ¹³ tc The LXX lacks the phrase “between its teeth.”

[7:5]  ¹⁴ tn Aram “and thus they were saying to it.”

[7:8]  ¹³ tn Aram “were uprooted from before it.”

[7:8]  ¹⁴ tn Aram “great.” So also in vv. 11, 20.

[7:20]  ¹⁵ tn The words “I also wanted to know” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[7:20]  ¹⁶ tc The conjunction in the MT before “eyes” is odd. The ancient versions do not seem to presuppose it.

[7:20]  ¹⁷ tn Aram “greater than its companions.”

[6:10]  ¹⁷ tn Aram “knew.”

[6:10]  ¹⁸ 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]  ¹⁹ 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]  ²⁰ 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]  ²¹ tc Read with several medieval Hebrew MSS and printed editions הֲוָה (havah) rather than the MT הוּא (hu’).

[6:10]  ²² tn Aram “kneeling on his knees” (so NASB).