Daniel 5:8

5:8 So all the king’s wise men came in, but they were unable to read the writing or to make known its ¹  interpretation to the king.

Daniel 6:3

6:3 Now this Daniel was distinguishing himself above the other supervisors and the satraps, for he had an extraordinary spirit. In fact, the king intended to appoint him over the entire kingdom.

Daniel 8:10

8:10 It grew so big it reached the army ²  of heaven, and it brought about the fall of some of the army and some of the stars ³  to the ground, where it trampled them.

Daniel 8:26

8:26 The vision of the evenings and mornings that was told to you is correct. ⁴  But you should seal up the vision, for it refers to a time many days from now.”

Daniel 10:9

10:9 I listened to his voice, ⁵  and as I did so ⁶  I fell into a trance-like sleep with my face to the ground.

Daniel 10:17

10:17 How, sir, am I able to speak with you? ⁷  My strength is gone, ⁸  and I am breathless.”

[5:8]  ¹ tc Read וּפִשְׁרֵהּ (ufishreh) with the Qere rather than וּפִשְׁרָא (ufishra’) of the Kethib.

[8:10]  ² tn Traditionally, “host.” The term refers to God’s heavenly angelic assembly, which he sometimes leads into battle as an army.

[8:10]  ³ sn In prescientific Israelite thinking the stars were associated with the angelic members of God’s heavenly assembly. See Judg 5:20; Job 38:7; Isa 40:26. In west Semitic mythology the stars were members of the high god’s divine assembly (see Isa 14:13).

[8:26]  ³ tn Heb “truth.”

[10:9]  ⁴ tc Heb “I heard the sound of his words.” These words are absent in the LXX and the Syriac.

[10:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “as I listened to the sound of his words.”

[10:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “How is the servant of this my lord able to speak with this my lord?”

[10:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “does not stand.”