Daniel 4:22

4:22 it is you, ¹  O king! For you have become great and strong. Your greatness is such that it reaches to heaven, and your authority to the ends of the earth.

Daniel 4:11

4:11 The tree grew large and strong.

Its top reached far into the sky;

it could be seen ²  from the borders of all the land. ³ 

Daniel 4:20

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,

Daniel 2:48

2:48 Then the king elevated Daniel to high position and bestowed on him many marvelous gifts. He granted him authority over the entire province of Babylon and made him the main prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 4:33

4:33 Now in that very moment ⁵  this pronouncement about ⁶  Nebuchadnezzar came true. ⁷  He was driven from human society, he ate grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until his hair became long like an eagle’s feathers, and his nails like a bird’s claws. ⁸ 

[4:22]  ¹ sn Much of modern scholarship views this chapter as a distortion of traditions that were originally associated with Nabonidus rather than with Nebuchadnezzar. A Qumran text, the Prayer of Nabonidus, is often cited for parallels to these events.

[4:11]  ² tn Aram “its sight.” So also v. 17.

[4:11]  ³ tn Or “to the end of all the earth” (so KJV, ASV); NCV, CEV “from anywhere on earth.”

[4:20]  ³ tn Aram “its sight.”

[4:33]  ⁴ tn Aram “hour.”

[4:33]  ⁵ tn Or “on.”

[4:33]  ⁶ tn Aram “was fulfilled.”

[4:33]  ⁷ tn The words “feathers” and “claws” are not present in the Aramaic text, but have been added in the translation for clarity.