Daniel 3:8

3:8 Now ¹  at that time certain ²  Chaldeans came forward and brought malicious accusations against ³  the Jews.

Daniel 6:11

6:11 Then those officials who had gone to the king ⁴  came by collusion and found Daniel praying and asking for help before his God.

Daniel 3:13

3:13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in a fit of rage ⁵  demanded that they bring ⁶  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego before him. So they brought them ⁷  before the king.

Daniel 3:20-21

3:20 He ordered strong ⁸  soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and to throw them into the furnace of blazing fire. 3:21 So those men were tied up while still wearing their cloaks, trousers, turbans, and other clothes, ⁹  and were thrown into the furnace ¹⁰  of blazing fire.

Daniel 3:23

3:23 But those three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell into the furnace ¹¹  of blazing fire while still securely bound. ¹² 

Daniel 6:5

6:5 So these men concluded, ¹³  “We won’t find any pretext against this man Daniel unless it is ¹⁴  in connection with the law of his God.”

Daniel 3:12

3:12 But there are Jewish men whom you appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon – Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego – and these men ¹⁵  have not shown proper respect to you, O king. They don’t serve your gods and they don’t pay homage to the golden statue that you have erected.”

Daniel 2:25

2:25 So Arioch quickly ushered Daniel into the king’s presence, saying to him, “I ¹⁶  have found a man from the captives of Judah who can make known the interpretation to the king.”

Daniel 3:22

3:22 But since the king’s command was so urgent, and the furnace was so excessively hot, the men who escorted ¹⁷  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were killed ¹⁸  by the leaping flames. ¹⁹ 

Daniel 3:24-25

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 ²⁰  into ²¹  the fire?” They replied to the king, “For sure, O king.” 3:25 He answered, “But I see four men, untied and walking around in the midst of the fire! No harm has come to them! And the appearance of the fourth is like that of a god!” ²² 

Daniel 3:27

3:27 Once the satraps, prefects, governors, and ministers of the king had gathered around, they saw that those men were physically ²³  unharmed by the fire. ²⁴  The hair of their heads was not singed, nor were their trousers damaged. Not even the smell of fire was to be found on them!

Daniel 5:11

5:11 There is a man in your kingdom who has within him a spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, he proved to have ²⁵  insight, discernment, and wisdom like that ²⁶  of the gods. ²⁷  King Nebuchadnezzar your father appointed him chief of the magicians, astrologers, wise men, and diviners. ²⁸ 

Daniel 6:15

6:15 Then those men came by collusion to the king and ²⁹  said to him, ³⁰  “Recall, ³¹  O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or decree that the king issues can be changed.”

Daniel 6:24

6:24 The king gave another order, ³²  and those men who had maliciously accused ³³  Daniel were brought and thrown ³⁴  into the lions’ den – they, their children, and their wives. ³⁵  They did not even reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

[3:8]  ¹ tc This expression is absent in Theodotion.

[3:8]  ² tn Aram “men.”

[3:8]  ³ tn Aram “ate the pieces of.” This is a rather vivid idiom for slander.

[6:11]  ⁴ tn Aram “those men”; the referent (the administrative officials who had earlier approached the king about the edict) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:13]  ⁷ tn Aram “in anger and wrath”; NASB “in rage and anger.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[3:13]  ⁸ tn The Aramaic infinitive is active.

[3:13]  ⁹ tn Aram “these men.” The pronoun is used in the translation to avoid undue repetition.

[3:20]  ¹⁰ tn This is sometimes taken as a comparative: “[some of the] strongest.”

[3:21]  ¹³ sn There is a great deal of uncertainty with regard to the specific nature of these items of clothing.

[3:21]  ¹⁴ tn Aram “into the midst of the furnace.” For stylistic reasons the words “the midst of” have been left untranslated.

[3:23]  ¹⁶ tn Aram “into the midst of the furnace.” For stylistic reasons the words “the midst of” have been left untranslated.

[3:23]  ¹⁷ 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.

[6:5]  ¹⁹ tn Aram “were saying.”

[6:5]  ²⁰ tn Aram “unless we find [it] against him.”

[3:12]  ²² sn Daniel’s absence from this scene has sparked the imagination of commentators, some of whom have suggested that perhaps he was unable to attend the dedication due to sickness or due to being away on business. Hippolytus supposed that Daniel may have been watching from a distance.

[2:25]  ²⁵ sn Arioch’s claim is self-serving and exaggerated. It is Daniel who came to him, and not the other way around. By claiming to have found one capable of solving the king’s dilemma, Arioch probably hoped to ingratiate himself to the king.

[3:22]  ²⁸ tn Aram “caused to go up.”

[3:22]  ²⁹ tn The Aramaic verb is active.

[3:22]  ³⁰ tn Aram “the flame of the fire” (so KJV, ASV, NASB); NRSV “the raging flames.”

[3:24]  ³¹ tn Aram “we threw…bound.”

[3:24]  ³² tn Aram “into the midst of.”

[3:25]  ³⁴ sn The phrase like that of a god is in Aramaic “like that of a son of the gods.” Many patristic writers understood this phrase in a christological sense (i.e., “the Son of God”). But it should be remembered that these are words spoken by a pagan who is seeking to explain things from his own polytheistic frame of reference; for him the phrase “like a son of the gods” is equivalent to “like a divine being.”

[3:27]  ³⁷ tn Aram “in their bodies.”

[3:27]  ³⁸ tn Aram “the fire did not have power.”

[5:11]  ⁴⁰ tn Aram “[there were] discovered to be in him.”

[5:11]  ⁴¹ tn Aram “wisdom like the wisdom.” This would be redundant in terms of English style.

[5:11]  ⁴² tc Theodotion lacks the phrase “and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods.”

[5:11]  ⁴³ tc The MT includes a redundant reference to “your father the king” at the end of v. 11. None of the attempts to explain this phrase as original are very convincing. The present translation deletes the phrase, following Theodotion and the Syriac.

[6:15]  ⁴³ tc Theodotion lacks the words “came by collusion to the king and.”

[6:15]  ⁴⁴ tn Aram “the king.”

[6:15]  ⁴⁵ tn Aram “know”; NAB “Keep in mind”; NASB “Recognize”; NIV, NCV “Remember.”

[6:24]  ⁴⁶ tn Aram “said.”

[6:24]  ⁴⁷ 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]  ⁴⁸ tn The Aramaic active impersonal verb is often used as a substitute for the passive.

[6:24]  ⁴⁹ tc The LXX specifies only the two overseers, together with their families, as those who were cast into the lions’ den.