Daniel 9:19
Context9:19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.” 1
Daniel 11:15
Context11:15 Then the king of the north will advance and will build siege mounds and capture a well-fortified city. 2 The forces of the south will not prevail, not even his finest contingents. 3 They will have no strength to prevail.


[9:19] 1 tn Heb “for your name is called over your city and your people.” See the note on this expression in v 18.
[11:15] 2 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] 3 tn Or “choice troops” (BDB 104 s.v. מִבְחָר), or “elite troops” (HALOT 542 s.v. מִבְחָר).