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 9:2

9:2 in the first year of his reign 5  I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books 6  that, according to the word of the LORD 7  disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem 8  were seventy in number.

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 tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.

6 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.

7 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.

8 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.