Daniel 7:10

7:10 A river of fire was streaming forth

and proceeding from his presence.

Many thousands were ministering to him;

Many tens of thousands stood ready to serve him. ¹ 

The court convened ² 

and the books were opened.

Daniel 6:10

6:10 When Daniel realized ³  that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows ⁴  in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. ⁵  Three ⁶  times daily he was ⁷  kneeling ⁸  and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.

Daniel 9:18

9:18 Listen attentively, ⁹  my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins ¹⁰  and the city called by your name. ¹¹  For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, ¹²  but because your compassion is abundant.

Daniel 10:16

10:16 Then ¹³  one who appeared to be a human being ¹⁴  was touching my lips. I opened my mouth and started to speak, saying to the one who was standing before me, “Sir, ¹⁵  due to the vision, anxiety has gripped me and I have no strength.

Daniel 9:8

9:8 O LORD, we have been humiliated ¹⁶  – our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors – because we have sinned against you.

Daniel 9:7

9:7 “You are righteous, ¹⁷  O Lord, but we are humiliated this day ¹⁸  – the people ¹⁹  of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.

Daniel 6:17

6:17 Then a stone was brought and placed over the opening ²⁰  to the den. The king sealed ²¹  it with his signet ring and with those ²²  of his nobles so that nothing could be changed with regard to Daniel.

Daniel 11:20

11:20 There will arise after him ²³  one ²⁴  who will send out an exactor ²⁵  of tribute to enhance the splendor of the kingdom, but after a few days he will be destroyed, ²⁶  though not in anger or battle.

Daniel 3:26

3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire. He called out, ²⁷  “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the most high God, come out! Come here!”

Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego emerged from the fire. ²⁸ 

[7:10]  ¹ tn Aram “were standing before him.”

[7:10]  ² tn Aram “judgment sat.”

[6:10]  ³ tn Aram “knew.”

[6:10]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tc Read with several medieval Hebrew MSS and printed editions הֲוָה (havah) rather than the MT הוּא (hu’).

[6:10]  ⁸ tn Aram “kneeling on his knees” (so NASB).

[9:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “turn your ear.”

[9:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “desolations.” The term refers here to the ruined condition of Judah’s towns.

[9:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “over which your name is called.” Cf. v. 19. This expression implies that God is the owner of his city, Jerusalem. Note the use of the idiom in 2 Sam 12:28; Isa 4:1; Amos 9:12.

[9:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “praying our supplications before you.”

[10:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “Behold.”

[10:16]  ⁸ tc So most Hebrew MSS; one Hebrew MS along with the Dead Sea Scrolls and LXX read “something that looked like a man’s hand.”

[10:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “my lord,” here a title of polite address. Cf. v. 19.

[9:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “to us (belongs) shame of face.”

[9:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to you (belongs) righteousness.”

[9:7]  ¹² tn Heb “and to us (belongs) shame of face like this day.”

[9:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “men.”

[6:17]  ¹³ tn Aram “mouth.”

[6:17]  ¹⁴ sn The purpose of the den being sealed was to prevent unauthorized tampering with the opening of the den. Any disturbance of the seal would immediately alert the officials to improper activity of this sort.

[6:17]  ¹⁵ tn Aram “the signet rings.”

[11:20]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “on his place.”

[11:20]  ¹⁶ sn The one who will send out an exactor of tribute was Seleucus IV Philopator (ca. 187-176 B.C.).

[11:20]  ¹⁷ sn Perhaps this exactor of tribute was Heliodorus (cf. 2 Maccabees 3).

[11:20]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “broken” or “shattered.”

[3:26]  ¹⁷ tn Aram “answered and said.”

[3:26]  ¹⁸ tn Aram “from the midst of the fire.” For stylistic reasons the words “the midst of” have been left untranslated.