Daniel 2:18

2:18 He asked them to pray for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery so that he ¹  and his friends would not be destroyed along with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 4:22

4:22 it is you, ²  O king! For you have become great and strong. Your greatness is such that it reaches to heaven, and your authority to the ends of the earth.

Daniel 4:31

4:31 While these words were still on the king’s lips, ³  a voice came down from heaven: “It is hereby announced to you, ⁴  King Nebuchadnezzar, that your kingdom has been removed from you!

Daniel 4:35

4:35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. ⁵ 

He does as he wishes with the army of heaven

and with those who inhabit the earth.

No one slaps ⁶  his hand

and says to him, ‘What have you done?’

Daniel 4:37

4:37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all his deeds are right and his ways are just. He is able to bring down those who live ⁷  in pride.

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 9:12

9:12 He has carried out his threats ¹⁰  against us and our rulers ¹¹  who were over ¹²  us by bringing great calamity on us – what has happened to Jerusalem has never been equaled under all heaven!

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¹ tn Aram “Daniel.” The proper name is redundant here in English, and has not been included in the translation.

² sn Much of modern scholarship views this chapter as a distortion of traditions that were originally associated with Nabonidus rather than with Nebuchadnezzar. A Qumran text, the Prayer of Nabonidus, is often cited for parallels to these events.

³ tn Aram “in the mouth of the king.”

⁴ tn Aram “to you they say.”

⁵ tc The present translation reads כְּלָא (kÿla’), with many medieval Hebrew MSS, rather than כְּלָה (kÿlah) of BHS.

⁶ tn Aram “strikes against.”

⁷ tn Aram “walk.”

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 tn Heb “he has fulfilled his word(s) which he spoke.”

¹¹ tn Heb “our judges.”

¹² tn Heb “who judged.”