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 5:18

5:18 As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty. ² 

Daniel 5:22

5:22 “But you, his son ³  Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, ⁴  although you knew all this.

Daniel 2:38

2:38 Wherever human beings, ⁵  wild animals, ⁶  and birds of the sky live – he has given them into your power. ⁷  He has given you authority over them all. You are the head of gold.

Daniel 4:18

4:18 “This is the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw. Now you, Belteshazzar, declare its ⁸  interpretation, for none of the wise men in ⁹  my kingdom are able to make known to me the interpretation. But you can do so, for a spirit of the holy gods is in you.”

Daniel 5:13

5:13 So Daniel was brought in before the king. The king said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel who is one of the captives of Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?

Daniel 2:29

2:29 “As for you, O king, while you were in your bed your thoughts turned to future things. ¹⁰  The revealer of mysteries has made known to you what will take place.

Daniel 2:31

2:31 “You, O king, were watching as a great statue – one ¹¹  of impressive size and extraordinary brightness – was standing before you. Its appearance caused alarm.

Daniel 2:37

Daniel Interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream

2:37 “You, O king, are the king of kings. The God of heaven has granted you sovereignty, power, strength, and honor.

Daniel 3:10

3:10 You have issued an edict, O king, that everyone must bow down and pay homage to the golden statue when they hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, trigon, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music.

Daniel 6:16

6:16 So the king gave the order, ¹²  and Daniel was brought and thrown into a den ¹³  of lions. The king consoled ¹⁴  Daniel by saying, “Your God whom you continually serve will rescue you!”

Daniel 6:20

6:20 As he approached the den, he called out to Daniel in a worried voice, ¹⁵  “Daniel, servant of the living God, was your God whom you continually serve able to rescue you from the lions?”

Daniel 5:23

5:23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone – gods ¹⁶  that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control ¹⁷  your very breath and all your ways!

[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.

[5:18]  ² tn Or “royal greatness and majestic honor,” if the four terms are understood as a double hendiadys.

[5:22]  ³ tn Or “descendant”; or “successor.”

[5:22]  ⁴ tn Aram “your heart.”

[2:38]  ⁴ tn Aram “the sons of man.”

[2:38]  ⁵ tn Aram “the beasts of the field.”

[2:38]  ⁶ tn Aram “hand.”

[4:18]  ⁵ tc The present translation reads פִּשְׁרֵהּ (pishreh, “its interpretation”) with the Qere and many medieval Hebrew MSS; the Kethib is פִּשְׁרָא (pishra’, “the interpretation”); so also v. 16.

[4:18]  ⁶ tn Aram “of.”

[2:29]  ⁶ tn Aram “your thoughts upon your bed went up to what will be after this.”

[2:31]  ⁷ tn Aram “an image.”

[6:16]  ⁸ tn Aram “said.” So also in vv. 24, 25.

[6:16]  ⁹ sn The den was perhaps a pit below ground level which could be safely observed from above.

[6:16]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “answered and said [to Daniel].”

[6:20]  ⁹ tn Aram “The king answered and said to Daniel.” This phrase has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons; it is redundant in English.

[5:23]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “which.”

[5:23]  ¹¹ tn Aram “in whose hand [are].”