Daniel 1:5

1:5 So the king assigned them a daily ration ¹  from his royal delicacies ²  and from the wine he himself drank. They were to be trained ³  for the next three years. At the end of that time they were to enter the king’s service. ⁴ 

Daniel 3:24

God Delivers His Servants

3:24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was startled and quickly got up. He said to his ministers, “Wasn’t it three men that we tied up and threw ⁵  into ⁶  the fire?” They replied to the king, “For sure, O king.”

Daniel 6:13

6:13 Then they said to the king, “Daniel, who is one of the captives ⁷  from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the edict that you issued. Three times daily he offers his prayer.” ⁸ 

Daniel 7:5

7:5 “Then ⁹  a second beast appeared, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and there were three ribs ¹⁰  in its mouth between its teeth. ¹¹  It was told, ¹²  ‘Get up and devour much flesh!’

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 ¹³  three kings.

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¹ tn Heb “a thing of a day in its day.”

² tn Heb “from the delicacies of the king.”

³ tn Or “educated.” See HALOT 179 s.v. I גדל.

⁴ tn Heb “stand before the king.”

⁵ tn Aram “we threw…bound.”

⁶ tn Aram “into the midst of.”

⁷ tn Aram “from the sons of the captivity [of].”

⁸ tn Aram “prays his prayer.”

⁹ tn Aram “and behold.”

¹⁰ sn The three ribs held securely in the mouth of the bear, perhaps representing Media-Persia, apparently symbolize military conquest, but the exact identity of the “ribs” is not clear. Possibly it is a reference to the Persian conquest of Lydia, Egypt, and Babylonia.

¹¹ tc The LXX lacks the phrase “between its teeth.”

¹² tn Aram “and thus they were saying to it.”

¹³ tn Or “subjugate”; KJV, NASB, NIV “subdue”; ASV, NRSV “put down.”