Daniel 3:28

3:28 Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed, ¹  “Praised be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent forth his angel ²  and has rescued his servants who trusted in him, ignoring ³  the edict of the king and giving up their bodies rather than ⁴  serve or pay homage to any god other than their God!

Daniel 6:24

6:24 The king gave another order, ⁵  and those men who had maliciously accused ⁶  Daniel were brought and thrown ⁷  into the lions’ den – they, their children, and their wives. ⁸  They did not even reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

[3:28]  ¹ tn Aram “answered and said.”

[3:28]  ² sn The king identifies the “son of the gods” (v. 25) as an angel. Comparable Hebrew expressions are used elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible for the members of God’s angelic assembly (see Gen 6:2, 4; Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7; Pss 29:1; 89:6). An angel later comes to rescue Daniel from the lions (Dan 6:22).

[3:28]  ³ tn Aram “they changed” or “violated.”

[3:28]  ⁴ tn Aram “so that they might not.”

[6:24]  ⁵ tn Aram “said.”

[6:24]  ⁶ tn Aram “had eaten the pieces of.” The Aramaic expression is ironic, in that the accusers who had figuratively “eaten the pieces of Daniel” are themselves literally devoured by the lions.

[6:24]  ⁷ tn The Aramaic active impersonal verb is often used as a substitute for the passive.

[6:24]  ⁸ tc The LXX specifies only the two overseers, together with their families, as those who were cast into the lions’ den.