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 1 into 2 the fire?” They replied to the king, “For sure, O king.”
7:5 “Then 5 a second beast appeared, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and there were three ribs 6 in its mouth between its teeth. 7 It was told, 8 ‘Get up and devour much flesh!’
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 9 three kings.
1 tn Aram “we threw…bound.”
2 tn Aram “into the midst of.”
3 tn Aram “from the sons of the captivity [of].”
4 tn Aram “prays his prayer.”
5 tn Aram “and behold.”
6 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.
7 tc The LXX lacks the phrase “between its teeth.”
8 tn Aram “and thus they were saying to it.”
9 tn Or “subjugate”; KJV, NASB, NIV “subdue”; ASV, NRSV “put down.”