Daniel 5:26

5:26 This is the interpretation of the words: ¹  As for mene ²  – God has numbered your kingdom’s days and brought it to an end.

Daniel 4:2

4:2 I am delighted to tell you about the signs and wonders that the most high God has done for me.

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. ³ 

Daniel 2:20

2:20 saying, ⁴ 

“Let the name of God ⁵  be praised ⁶  forever and ever,

for wisdom and power belong to him.

Daniel 3:26

3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire. He called out, ⁷  “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the most high God, come out! Come here!”

Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego emerged from the fire. ⁸ 

Daniel 5:3

5:3 So they brought the gold and silver ⁹  vessels that had been confiscated from the temple, the house of God ¹⁰  in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, together with his wives and concubines, drank from them.

Daniel 6:20

6:20 As he approached the den, he called out to Daniel in a worried voice, ¹¹  “Daniel, servant of the living God, was your God whom you continually serve able to rescue you from the lions?”

Daniel 5:21

5:21 He was driven from human society, his mind ¹²  was changed to that of an animal, he lived ¹³  with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until he came to understand that the most high God rules over human kingdoms, and he appoints over them whomever he wishes.

Daniel 6:26

6:26 I have issued an edict that throughout all the dominion of my kingdom people are to revere and fear the God of Daniel.

“For he is the living God;

he endures forever.

His kingdom will not be destroyed;

his authority is forever. ¹⁴ 

[5:26]  ¹ tn Or “word” or “event.” See HALOT 1915 s.v. מִלָּה.

[5:26]  ² tn The Aramaic term מְנֵא (mÿne’) is a noun referring to a measure of weight. The linkage here to the verb “to number” (Aram. מְנָה, mÿnah) is a case of paronomasia rather than strict etymology. So also with תְּקֵל (tÿqel) and פַרְסִין (farsin). In the latter case there is an obvious wordplay with the name “Persian.”

[5:18]  ³ tn Or “royal greatness and majestic honor,” if the four terms are understood as a double hendiadys.

[2:20]  ⁵ tn Aram “Daniel answered and said.”

[2:20]  ⁶ sn As is often the case in the Bible, here the name represents the person.

[2:20]  ⁷ tn Or “blessed.”

[3:26]  ⁷ tn Aram “answered and said.”

[3:26]  ⁸ tn Aram “from the midst of the fire.” For stylistic reasons the words “the midst of” have been left untranslated.

[5:3]  ⁹ tc The present translation reads וְכַסְפָּא (vÿkhaspa’, “and the silver”) with Theodotion and the Vulgate. Cf. v. 2. The form was probably accidentally dropped from the Aramaic text by homoioteleuton.

[5:3]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “the temple of the house of God.” The phrase seems rather awkward. The Vulgate lacks “of the house of God,” while Theodotion and the Syriac lack “the house.”

[6:20]  ¹¹ 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.

[5:21]  ¹³ tn Aram “heart.”

[5:21]  ¹⁴ tn Aram “his dwelling.”

[6:26]  ¹⁵ tn Aram “until the end.”