Daniel 8:17

8:17 So he approached the place where I was standing. As he came, I felt terrified and fell flat on the ground. ¹  Then he said to me, “Understand, son of man, ²  that the vision pertains to the time of the end.”

Daniel 11:10

11:10 His sons ³  will wage war, mustering a large army which will advance like an overflowing river and carrying the battle all the way to the enemy’s ⁴  fortress. ⁵ 

Daniel 11:14

11:14 “In those times many will oppose ⁶  the king of the south. ⁷  Those who are violent ⁸  among your own people will rise up in confirmation of ⁹  the vision, but they will falter.

Daniel 11:41

11:41 Then he will enter the beautiful land. ¹⁰  Many ¹¹  will fall, but these will escape: ¹²  Edom, Moab, and the Ammonite leadership.

[8:17]  ¹ tn Heb “on my face.”

[8:17]  ² tn Or “human one.”

[11:10]  ³ sn The sons of Seleucus II Callinicus were Seleucus III Ceraunus (ca. 227-223 B.C.) and Antiochus III the Great (ca. 223-187 B.C.).

[11:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “his”; the referent (the enemy of the king of the north) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he will certainly come and overflow and cross over and return and be aroused unto a fortress.” The translation has attempted to simplify the syntax of this difficult sequence.

[11:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “stand against.”

[11:14]  ⁶ sn This was Ptolemy V Epiphanes (ca. 203-181 B.C.).

[11:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “sons of violence.” “Son(s) is sometimes used idiomatically in Hebrew to indicate that someone is characterized by a certain quality. So the expression “sons of violence” means that these individuals will be characterized by violent deeds.

[11:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “to cause to stand.”

[11:41]  ⁷ sn The beautiful land is a cryptic reference to the land of Israel.

[11:41]  ⁸ tn This can be understood as “many people” (cf. NRSV) or “many countries” (cf. NASB, NIV, NLT).

[11:41]  ⁹ tn Heb “be delivered from his hand.”