Daniel 1:17

1:17 Now as for these four young men, God endowed them with knowledge and skill in all sorts of literature and wisdom – and Daniel had insight into all kinds of visions and dreams.

Daniel 1:19

1:19 When the king spoke with them, he did not find among the entire group ¹  anyone like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, or Azariah. So they entered the king’s service. ² 

Daniel 2:18

2:18 He asked them to pray for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery so that he ³  and his friends would not be destroyed along with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 3:14

3:14 Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my gods and that you don’t pay homage to the golden statue that I erected?

Daniel 3:25

3:25 He answered, “But I see four men, untied and walking around in the midst of the fire! No harm has come to them! And the appearance of the fourth is like that of a god!” ⁴ 

Daniel 5:3

5:3 So they brought the gold and silver ⁵  vessels that had been confiscated from the temple, the house of God ⁶  in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, together with his wives and concubines, drank from them.

Daniel 7:24

7:24 The ten horns

mean that ten kings will arise from that kingdom.

Another king will arise after them,

but he will be different from the earlier ones.

He will humiliate ⁷  three kings.

Daniel 8:10

8:10 It grew so big it reached the army ⁸  of heaven, and it brought about the fall of some of the army and some of the stars ⁹  to the ground, where it trampled them.

Daniel 11:7

11:7 “There will arise in his ¹⁰  place one from her family line ¹¹  who will come against their army and will enter the stronghold of the king of the north and will move against them successfully. ¹² 

Daniel 11:18

11:18 Then he will turn his attention ¹³  to the coastal regions and will capture many of them. But a commander ¹⁴  will bring his shameful conduct to a halt; in addition, ¹⁵  he will make him pay for his shameful conduct. ¹⁶ 

Daniel 11:37

11:37 He will not respect ¹⁷  the gods of his fathers – not even the god loved by women. ¹⁸  He will not respect any god; he will elevate himself above them all.

Daniel 11:39

11:39 He will attack ¹⁹  mighty fortresses, aided by ²⁰  a foreign deity. To those who recognize him he will grant considerable honor. He will place them in authority over many people, and he will parcel out land for a price. ²¹ 

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¹ tn Heb “from all of them.”

² tn Heb “stood before the king.”

³ tn Aram “Daniel.” The proper name is redundant here in English, and has not been included in the translation.

⁴ sn The phrase like that of a god is in Aramaic “like that of a son of the gods.” Many patristic writers understood this phrase in a christological sense (i.e., “the Son of God”). But it should be remembered that these are words spoken by a pagan who is seeking to explain things from his own polytheistic frame of reference; for him the phrase “like a son of the gods” is equivalent to “like a divine being.”

⁵ tc The present translation reads וְכַסְפָּא (vÿkhaspa’, “and the silver”) with Theodotion and the Vulgate. Cf. v. 2. The form was probably accidentally dropped from the Aramaic text by homoioteleuton.

⁶ tn Aram “the temple of the house of God.” The phrase seems rather awkward. The Vulgate lacks “of the house of God,” while Theodotion and the Syriac lack “the house.”

⁷ tn Or “subjugate”; KJV, NASB, NIV “subdue”; ASV, NRSV “put down.”

⁸ tn Traditionally, “host.” The term refers to God’s heavenly angelic assembly, which he sometimes leads into battle as an army.

⁹ sn In prescientific Israelite thinking the stars were associated with the angelic members of God’s heavenly assembly. See Judg 5:20; Job 38:7; Isa 40:26. In west Semitic mythology the stars were members of the high god’s divine assembly (see Isa 14:13).

¹⁰ sn The reference is to the king of Egypt.

¹¹ tn Heb “the stock of her roots.”

sn The reference to one from her family line is probably to Berenice’s brother, Ptolemy III Euergetes (ca. 246-221 B.C.).

¹² tn Heb “will deal with them and prevail.”

¹³ tn Heb “his face.” See v. 19 as well.

¹⁴ sn The commander is probably the Roman commander, Lucius Cornelius Scipio.

¹⁵ tn The Hebrew here is difficult in that the negative בִּלְתִּי (biltiy, “not”) is used in an unusual way. The sense is not entirely clear.

¹⁶ tn Heb “his shameful conduct he will return to him.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “consider.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “[the one] desired by women.” The referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁹ tn Heb “act against.”

²⁰ tn Heb “with.”

²¹ tn Or perhaps “for a reward.”