Daniel 2:35

2:35 Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were broken in pieces without distinction ¹  and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors that the wind carries away. Not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a large mountain that filled the entire earth.

Daniel 2:41

2:41 In that you were seeing feet and toes ²  partly of wet clay ³  and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom. Some of the strength of iron will be in it, for you saw iron mixed with wet clay. ⁴ 

Daniel 4:36

4:36 At that time my sanity returned to me. I was restored ⁵  to the honor of my kingdom, and my splendor returned to me. My ministers and my nobles were seeking me out, and I was reinstated ⁶  over my kingdom. I became even greater than before.

Daniel 5:19

5:19 Due to the greatness that he bestowed on him, all peoples, nations, and language groups were trembling with fear ⁷  before him. He killed whom he wished, he spared ⁸  whom he wished, he exalted whom he wished, and he brought low whom he wished.

Daniel 6:24

6:24 The king gave another order, ⁹  and those men who had maliciously accused ¹⁰  Daniel were brought and thrown ¹¹  into the lions’ den – they, their children, and their wives. ¹²  They did not even reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

Daniel 7:4

7:4 “The first one was like a lion with eagles’ wings. As I watched, its wings were pulled off and it was lifted up from the ground. It was made to stand on two feet like a human being, and a human mind ¹³  was given to it. ¹⁴ 

Daniel 7:8

7:8 “As I was contemplating the horns, another horn – a small one – came up between them, and three of the former horns were torn out by the roots to make room for it. ¹⁵  This horn had eyes resembling human eyes and a mouth speaking arrogant ¹⁶  things.

Daniel 9:2

9:2 in the first year of his reign ¹⁷  I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books ¹⁸  that, according to the word of the LORD ¹⁹  disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem ²⁰  were seventy in number.

Daniel 10:12

10:12 Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel, for from the very first day you applied your mind ²¹  to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come in response to your words.

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¹ tn Aram “as one.” For the meaning “without distinction” see the following: F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 36, §64, and p. 93; E. Vogt, Lexicon linguae aramaicae, 60.

² tc The LXX lacks “and toes.”

³ tn Aram “potter’s clay.”

⁴ tn Aram “clay of clay” (also in v. 43).

⁵ tc The translation reads הַדְרֵת (hadret, “I returned”) rather than the MT הַדְרִי (hadri, “my honor”); cf. Theodotion.

⁶ tc The translation reads הָתְקְנֵת (hotqÿnet, “I was established”) rather than the MT הָתְקְנַת (hotqÿnat, “it was established”). As it stands, the MT makes no sense here.

⁷ tn Aram “were trembling and fearing.” This can be treated as a hendiadys, “were trembling with fear.”

⁸ tn Aram “let live.” This Aramaic form is the aphel participle of חַיָה(khayah, “to live”). Theodotion and the Vulgate mistakenly take the form to be from מְחָא (mÿkha’, “to smite”).

⁹ tn Aram “said.”

¹⁰ tn Aram “had eaten the pieces of.” The Aramaic expression is ironic, in that the accusers who had figuratively “eaten the pieces of Daniel” are themselves literally devoured by the lions.

¹¹ tn The Aramaic active impersonal verb is often used as a substitute for the passive.

¹² tc The LXX specifies only the two overseers, together with their families, as those who were cast into the lions’ den.

¹³ tn Aram “heart of a man.”

¹⁴ sn The identity of the first animal, derived from v. 17 and the parallels in chap. 2, is Babylon. The reference to the plucking of its wings is probably a reference to the time of Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity (cf. chap. 4). The latter part of v. 4 then describes the restoration of Nebuchadnezzar. The other animals have traditionally been understood to represent respectively Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome, although most of modern scholarship identifies them as Media, Persia, and Greece. For a biblical parallel to the mention of lion, bear, and leopard together, see Hos 13:7-8.

¹⁵ tn Aram “were uprooted from before it.”

¹⁶ tn Aram “great.” So also in vv. 11, 20.

¹⁷ tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.

¹⁸ 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.

¹⁹ 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.

²⁰ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

²¹ tn Heb “gave your heart.”