Daniel 9:6
Context9:6 We have not paid attention to your servants the prophets, who spoke by your authority 1 to our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors, 2 and to all the inhabitants 3 of the land as well.
Daniel 9:15
Context9:15 “Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with great power 4 and made a name for yourself that is remembered to this day – we have sinned and behaved wickedly.
Daniel 9:19-20
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.” 5
9:20 While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the LORD my God concerning his holy mountain 6 –
Daniel 11:14-15
Context11:14 “In those times many will oppose 7 the king of the south. 8 Those who are violent 9 among your own people will rise up in confirmation of 10 the vision, but they will falter. 11:15 Then the king of the north will advance and will build siege mounds and capture a well-fortified city. 11 The forces of the south will not prevail, not even his finest contingents. 12 They will have no strength to prevail.


[9:6] 1 tn Heb “in your name.” Another option is to translate, “as your representatives.”
[9:6] 2 tn Heb “our fathers” (also in vv. 8, 16). The Hebrew term translated “father” can refer to more distant relationships such as grandfathers or ancestors.
[9:15] 4 tn Heb “with a powerful hand.”
[9:19] 7 tn Heb “for your name is called over your city and your people.” See the note on this expression in v 18.
[9:20] 10 tn Heb “the holy mountain of my God.”
[11:14] 13 tn Heb “stand against.”
[11:14] 14 sn This was Ptolemy V Epiphanes (ca. 203-181
[11:14] 15 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] 16 tn Heb “to cause to stand.”
[11:15] 16 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] 17 tn Or “choice troops” (BDB 104 s.v. מִבְחָר), or “elite troops” (HALOT 542 s.v. מִבְחָר).