Daniel 6:8

6:8 Now let the king issue a written interdict ¹  so that it cannot be altered, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed. ² 

Daniel 9:11

9:11 “All Israel has broken ³  your law and turned away by not obeying you. ⁴  Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened ⁵  in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you. ⁶ 

Daniel 6:5

6:5 So these men concluded, ⁷  “We won’t find any pretext against this man Daniel unless it is ⁸  in connection with the law of his God.”

Daniel 9:10

9:10 We have not obeyed ⁹  the LORD our God by living according to ¹⁰  his laws ¹¹  that he set before us through his servants the prophets.

Daniel 6:15

6:15 Then those men came by collusion to the king and ¹²  said to him, ¹³  “Recall, ¹⁴  O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or decree that the king issues can be changed.”

Daniel 9:13

9:13 Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify ¹⁵  the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom ¹⁶  from your reliable moral standards. ¹⁷ 

Daniel 7:25

7:25 He will speak words against the Most High.

He will harass ¹⁸  the holy ones of the Most High continually.

His intention ¹⁹  will be to change times established by law. ²⁰ 

They will be delivered into his hand

For a time, times, ²¹  and half a time.

Daniel 6:12

6:12 So they approached the king and said to him, ²²  “Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?” The king replied, “That is correct, ²³  according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

Daniel 6:9

6:9 So King Darius issued the written interdict.

Daniel 9:5

9:5 we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards.

Daniel 6:7

6:7 To all the supervisors of the kingdom, the prefects, satraps, counselors, and governors it seemed like a good idea for a royal edict to be issued and an interdict to be enforced. For the next thirty days anyone who prays ²⁴  to any god or human other than you, O king, should be thrown into a den of lions.

Daniel 6:13-14

6:13 Then they said to the king, “Daniel, who is one of the captives ²⁵  from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the edict that you issued. Three times daily he offers his prayer.” ²⁶ 

6:14 When the king heard this, ²⁷  he was very upset and began thinking about ²⁸  how he might rescue Daniel. Until late afternoon ²⁹  he was struggling to find a way to rescue him.

Daniel 6:10

6:10 When Daniel realized ³⁰  that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows ³¹  in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. ³²  Three ³³  times daily he was ³⁴  kneeling ³⁵  and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.

[6:8]  ¹ tn Aram “establish a written interdict and inscribe a written decree.”

[6:8]  ² tn Or “removed.”

[9:11]  ³ tn Or “transgressed.” The Hebrew verb has the primary sense of crossing a boundary, in this case, God’s law.

[9:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “by not paying attention to your voice.”

[9:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “the curse and the oath which is written.” The term “curse” refers here to the judgments threatened in the Mosaic law (see Deut 28) for rebellion. The expression “the curse and the oath” is probably a hendiadys (cf. Num 5:21; Neh 10:29) referring to the fact that the covenant with its threatened judgments was ratified by solemn oath and made legally binding upon the covenant community.

[9:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “him.”

[6:5]  ⁵ tn Aram “were saying.”

[6:5]  ⁶ tn Aram “unless we find [it] against him.”

[9:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “paid attention to the voice of,” which is an idiomatic expression for obedience (cf. NASB “nor have we obeyed the voice of”).

[9:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “to walk in.”

[9:10]  ⁹ tc The LXX and Vulgate have the singular.

[6:15]  ⁹ tc Theodotion lacks the words “came by collusion to the king and.”

[6:15]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “the king.”

[6:15]  ¹¹ tn Aram “know”; NAB “Keep in mind”; NASB “Recognize”; NIV, NCV “Remember.”

[9:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “we have not pacified the face of.”

[9:13]  ¹² tn Or “by gaining insight.”

[9:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “by your truth.” The Hebrew term does not refer here to abstract truth, however, but to the reliable moral guidance found in the covenant law. See vv 10-11.

[7:25]  ¹³ tn Aram “wear out” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV); NASB, NLT “wear down.” The word is a hapax legomenon in biblical Aramaic, but in biblical Hebrew it especially refers to wearing out such things as garments. Here it is translated “harass…continually.”

[7:25]  ¹⁴ tn Aram “he will think.”

[7:25]  ¹⁵ tn Aram “times and law.” The present translation is based on the understanding that the expression is a hendiadys.

[7:25]  ¹⁶ sn Although the word times is vocalized in the MT as a plural, it probably should be regarded as a dual. The Masoretes may have been influenced here by the fact that in late Aramaic (and Syriac) the dual forms fall out of use. The meaning would thus be three and a half “times.”

[6:12]  ¹⁵ tc The MT also has “about the edict of the king,” but this phrase is absent in the LXX and the Syriac. The present translation deletes the expression.

[6:12]  ¹⁶ tn Aram “the word is true.”

[6:7]  ¹⁷ tn Aram “prays a prayer.”

[6:13]  ¹⁹ tn Aram “from the sons of the captivity [of].”

[6:13]  ²⁰ tn Aram “prays his prayer.”

[6:14]  ²¹ tn Aram “the word.”

[6:14]  ²² tn Aram “placed his mind on.”

[6:14]  ²³ tn Aram “the entrances of the sun.”

[6:10]  ²³ tn Aram “knew.”

[6:10]  ²⁴ sn In later rabbinic thought this verse was sometimes cited as a proof text for the notion that one should pray only in a house with windows. See b. Berakhot 34b.

[6:10]  ²⁵ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[6:10]  ²⁶ sn This is apparently the only specific mention in the OT of prayer being regularly offered three times a day. The practice was probably not unique to Daniel, however.

[6:10]  ²⁷ tc Read with several medieval Hebrew MSS and printed editions הֲוָה (havah) rather than the MT הוּא (hu’).

[6:10]  ²⁸ tn Aram “kneeling on his knees” (so NASB).