Daniel 2:2

2:2 The king issued an order ¹  to summon the magicians, astrologers, sorcerers, and wise men ²  in order to explain his dreams to him. ³  So they came and awaited the king’s instructions. ⁴ 

Daniel 2:42

2:42 In that the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, the latter stages of this kingdom will be partly strong and partly fragile.

Daniel 6:12

6:12 So they approached the king and said to him, ⁵  “Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?” The king replied, “That is correct, ⁶  according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

Daniel 8:21

8:21 The male goat ⁷  is the king of Greece, ⁸  and the large horn between its eyes is the first king.

Daniel 9:2

9:2 in the first year of his reign ⁹  I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books ¹⁰  that, according to the word of the LORD ¹¹  disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem ¹²  were seventy in number.

Daniel 10:21

10:21 However, I will first tell you what is written in a dependable book. ¹³  (There is no one who strengthens me against these princes, ¹⁴  except Michael your ¹⁵  prince.

Daniel 11:11

11:11 “Then the king of the south ¹⁶  will be enraged and will march out to fight against the king of the north, who will also muster a large army, but that army will be delivered into his hand.

Daniel 11:31

11:31 His forces ¹⁷  will rise up and profane the fortified sanctuary, ¹⁸  stopping the daily sacrifice. In its place they will set up ¹⁹  the abomination that causes desolation.

[2:2]  ¹ tn Heb “said.” So also in v. 12.

[2:2]  ² tn Heb “Chaldeans.” The term Chaldeans (Hebrew כַּשְׂדִּים, kasdim) is used in the book of Daniel both in an ethnic sense and, as here, to refer to a caste of Babylonian wise men and astrologers.

[2:2]  ³ tn Heb “to explain to the king his dreams.”

[2:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “stood before the king.”

[6:12]  ⁵ tc The MT also has “about the edict of the king,” but this phrase is absent in the LXX and the Syriac. The present translation deletes the expression.

[6:12]  tn Aram “before the king.”

[6:12]  ⁶ tn Aram “the word is true.”

[8:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “the he-goat, the buck.” The expression is odd, and the second word may be an explanatory gloss.

[8:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “Javan.”

[9:2]  ⁹ tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.

[9:2]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text has “books”; the word “sacred” has been added in the translation to clarify that it is Scriptures that are referred to.

[9:2]  ¹¹ sn The tetragrammaton (the four Hebrew letters which constitute the divine Name, YHWH) appears eight times in this chapter, and nowhere else in the book of Daniel.

[9:2]  ¹² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[10:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “a book of truth.” Several English versions treat this as a title of some sort (cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT), although the NAB’s rendering “the truthful book” regards “truth” as an attributive adjective, as does the present translation.

[10:21]  ¹⁴ tn The word “princes” is supplied for clarity.

[10:21]  ¹⁵ tn The pronoun is plural in Hebrew, suggesting that Michael is the angelic prince of Daniel and his people.

[11:11]  ¹⁶ sn This king of the south refers to Ptolemy IV Philopator (ca. 221-204 B.C.).

[11:31]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “arms.”

[11:31]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the sanctuary, the fortress.”

[11:31]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “will give.”