Daniel 8:24

8:24 His power will be great, but it will not be by his strength alone. He will cause terrible destruction. ¹  He will be successful in what he undertakes. ²  He will destroy powerful people and the people of the holy ones. ³ 

Daniel 8:22

8:22 The horn that was broken ⁴  and in whose place there arose four others stands for four kingdoms that will arise from his nation, though they will not have his strength.

Daniel 10:8

10:8 I alone was left to see this great vision. My strength drained from ⁵  me, and my vigor disappeared; ⁶  I was without energy. ⁷ 

Daniel 8:6

8:6 It came to the two-horned ram that I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed against it with raging strength. ⁸ 

Daniel 11:15

11:15 Then the king of the north will advance and will build siege mounds and capture a well-fortified city. ⁹  The forces of the south will not prevail, not even his finest contingents. ¹⁰  They will have no strength to prevail.

Daniel 1:4

1:4 young men in whom there was no physical defect and who were handsome, ¹¹  well versed in all kinds of wisdom, well educated ¹²  and having keen insight, ¹³  and who were capable ¹⁴  of entering the king’s royal service ¹⁵  – and to teach them the literature and language ¹⁶  of the Babylonians. ¹⁷ 

Daniel 8:7

8:7 I saw it approaching the ram. It went into a fit of rage against the ram ¹⁸  and struck it ¹⁹  and broke off its two horns. The ram had no ability to resist it. ²⁰  The goat hurled the ram ²¹  to the ground and trampled it. No one could deliver the ram from its power. ²² 

Daniel 10:16-17

10:16 Then ²³  one who appeared to be a human being ²⁴  was touching my lips. I opened my mouth and started to speak, saying to the one who was standing before me, “Sir, ²⁵  due to the vision, anxiety has gripped me and I have no strength. 10:17 How, sir, am I able to speak with you? ²⁶  My strength is gone, ²⁷  and I am breathless.”

Daniel 11:6

11:6 After some years have passed, they ²⁸  will form an alliance. Then the daughter ²⁹  of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement, but she will not retain her power, ³⁰  nor will he continue ³¹  in his strength. ³²  She, together with the one who brought her, her child, ³³  and her benefactor will all be delivered over at that time. ³⁴ 

Daniel 11:25

11:25 He will rouse his strength and enthusiasm ³⁵  against the king of the south ³⁶  with a large army. The king of the south will wage war with a large and very powerful army, but he will not be able to prevail because of the plans devised against him.

[8:24]  ¹ tn Heb “extraordinarily he will destroy.”

[8:24]  ² tn Heb “he will succeed and act.”

[8:24]  ³ tn See the corresponding Aramaic expression in 7:27. If the “holy ones” are angels, then this probably refers to the angels as protectors of God’s people. One could translate, “people belonging to (i.e., protected by) the holy ones.” If the “holy ones” are God’s people, then this is an appositional construction, “the people who are the holy ones.” One could translate simply “holy people.” For examples of a plural appositional genitive after “people,” see 11:15, 32. Because either interpretation is possible, the translation has deliberately preserved the ambiguity of the Hebrew grammar here.

[8:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “the broken one.” The word “horn” has been supplied in the translation to clarify the referent.

[10:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “did not remain in.”

[10:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “was changed upon me for ruin.”

[10:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “strength.”

[8:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the wrath of its strength.”

[11:15]  ¹³ sn This well-fortified city is apparently Sidon. Its capture from the Ptolemies by Antiochus the Great was a strategic victory for the Seleucid kingdom.

[11:15]  ¹⁴ tn Or “choice troops” (BDB 104 s.v. מִבְחָר), or “elite troops” (HALOT 542 s.v. מִבְחָר).

[1:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “good of appearance.”

[1:4]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “knowers of knowledge.”

[1:4]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “understanders of knowledge.”

[1:4]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “who had strength.”

[1:4]  ²⁰ tn Heb “to stand in the palace of the king.” Cf. vv. 5, 19.

[1:4]  ²¹ sn The language of the Chaldeans referred to here is Akkadian, an East Semitic cuneiform language.

[1:4]  ²² tn Heb “Chaldeans” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV). This is an ancient name for the Babylonians.

[8:7]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “him.”

[8:7]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the ram.”

[8:7]  ²¹ tn Heb “stand before him.”

[8:7]  ²² tn Heb “he hurled him.” The referents of both pronouns (the male goat and the ram) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:7]  ²³ sn The goat of Daniel’s vision represents Greece; the large horn represents Alexander the Great. The ram stands for Media-Persia. Alexander’s rapid conquest of the Persians involved three battles of major significance which he won against overwhelming odds: Granicus (334 B.C.), Isus (333 B.C.), and Gaugemela (331 B.C.).

[10:16]  ²² tn Heb “Behold.”

[10:16]  ²³ 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]  ²⁴ tn Heb “my lord,” here a title of polite address. Cf. v. 19.

[10:17]  ²⁵ tn Heb “How is the servant of this my lord able to speak with this my lord?”

[10:17]  ²⁶ tn Heb “does not stand.”

[11:6]  ²⁸ sn Here they refers to Ptolemy II Philadelphus (ca. 285-246 B.C.) and Antiochus II Theos (ca. 262-246 B.C.).

[11:6]  ²⁹ sn The daughter refers to Berenice, who was given in marriage to Antiochus II Theos.

[11:6]  ³⁰ tn Heb “the strength of the arm.”

[11:6]  ³¹ tn Heb “stand.” So also in vv. 7, 8, 11, 13.

[11:6]  ³² tn Heb “and his arm.” Some understand this to refer to the descendants of the king of the north.

[11:6]  ³³ tc The present translation reads יַלְדָּה (yaldah, “her child”) rather than the MT יֹלְדָהּ (yolÿdah, “the one who begot her”). Cf. Theodotion, the Syriac, and the Vulgate.

[11:6]  ³⁴ sn Antiochus II eventually divorced Berenice and remarried his former wife Laodice, who then poisoned her husband, had Berenice put to death, and installed her own son, Seleucus II Callinicus (ca. 246-227 B.C.), as the Seleucid king.

[11:25]  ³¹ tn Heb “heart.”

[11:25]  ³² sn This king of the south was Ptolemy Philometer (ca. 181-145 B.C.).