Daniel 6:15

6:15 Then those men came by collusion to the king and ¹  said to him, ²  “Recall, ³  O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or decree that the king issues can be changed.”

Daniel 7:6

7:6 “After these things, ⁴  as I was watching, another beast ⁵  like a leopard appeared, with four bird-like wings on its back. ⁶  This beast had four heads, ⁷  and ruling authority was given to it.

Daniel 8:26

8:26 The vision of the evenings and mornings that was told to you is correct. ⁸  But you should seal up the vision, for it refers to a time many days from now.”

Daniel 10:14

10:14 Now I have come to help you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to future days.”

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 12:2

12:2 Many of those who sleep

in the dusty ground will awake –

some to everlasting life,

and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence. ¹¹ 

Daniel 12:5

12:5 I, Daniel, watched as two others stood there, one on each side of the river. ¹² 

[6:15]  ¹ tc Theodotion lacks the words “came by collusion to the king and.”

[6:15]  ² tn Aram “the king.”

[6:15]  ³ tn Aram “know”; NAB “Keep in mind”; NASB “Recognize”; NIV, NCV “Remember.”

[7:6]  ⁴ tn Aram “this.” So also in v. 7.

[7:6]  ⁵ tn Aram “and behold, another one.”

[7:6]  ⁶ tn Or “sides.”

[7:6]  ⁷ sn If the third animal is Greece, the most likely identification of these four heads is the four-fold division of the empire of Alexander the Great following his death. See note on Dan 8:8.

[8:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “truth.”

[11:15]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ tn Or “choice troops” (BDB 104 s.v. מִבְחָר), or “elite troops” (HALOT 542 s.v. מִבְחָר).

[12:2]  ¹¹ sn This verse is the only undisputed reference to a literal resurrection found in the Hebrew Bible.

[12:5]  ¹² tn Heb “one to this edge of the river and one to that edge of the river.”