Daniel 4:21

4:21 whose foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful, and from which there was food available for all, under whose branches wild animals ¹  used to live, and in whose branches birds of the sky used to nest –

Daniel 4:12

4:12 Its foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful;

on it there was food enough for all.

Under it the wild animals ²  used to seek shade,

and in its branches the birds of the sky used to nest.

All creatures ³  used to feed themselves from it.

Daniel 9:24

9:24 “Seventy weeks ⁴  have been determined

concerning your people and your holy city

to put an end to ⁵  rebellion,

to bring sin ⁶  to completion, ⁷ 

to atone for iniquity,

to bring in perpetual ⁸  righteousness,

to seal up ⁹  the prophetic vision, ¹⁰ 

and to anoint a most holy place. ¹¹ 

[4:21]  ¹ tn Aram “the beasts of the field” (also in vv. 23, 25, 32).

[4:12]  ² tn Aram “the beasts of the field.”

[4:12]  ³ tn Aram “all flesh.”

[9:24]  ³ tn Heb “sevens.” Elsewhere the term is used of a literal week (a period of seven days), cf. Gen 29:27-28; Exod 34:22; Lev 12:5; Num 28:26; Deut 16:9-10; 2 Chr 8:13; Jer 5:24; Dan 10:2-3. Gabriel unfolds the future as if it were a calendar of successive weeks. Most understand the reference here as periods of seventy “sevens” of years, or a total of 490 years.

[9:24]  ⁴ tc Or “to finish.” The present translation reads the Qere (from the root תָּמַם, tamam) with many witnesses. The Kethib has “to seal up” (from the root הָתַם, hatam), a confusion with a reference later in the verse to sealing up the vision.

[9:24]  ⁵ tc The present translation reads the Qere (singular), rather than the Kethib (plural).

[9:24]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew phrase לְכַלֵּא (lÿkhalle’) is apparently an alternative (metaplastic) spelling of the root כָּלָה (kalah, “to complete, finish”), rather than a form of כָּלָא (kala’, “to shut up, restrain”), as has sometimes been supposed.

[9:24]  ⁷ tn Or “everlasting.”

[9:24]  ⁸ sn The act of sealing in the OT is a sign of authentication. Cf. 1 Kgs 21:8; Jer 32:10, 11, 44.

[9:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “vision and prophecy.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[9:24]  ¹⁰ tn Or “the most holy place” (NASB, NLT); or “a most holy one”; or “the most holy one,” though the expression is used of places or objects elsewhere, not people.