Daniel 4:11

4:11 The tree grew large and strong.

Its top reached far into the sky;

it could be seen from the borders of all the land.

Daniel 4:20

4:20 The tree that you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached to the sky, and which could be seen in all the land,

Daniel 8:9

8:9 From one of them came a small horn. But it grew to be very big, toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land.


tn Aram “its sight.” So also v. 17.

tn Or “to the end of all the earth” (so KJV, ASV); NCV, CEV “from anywhere on earth.”

tn Aram “its sight.”

sn This small horn is Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who controlled the Seleucid kingdom from ca. 175-164 B.C. Antiochus was extremely hostile toward the Jews and persecuted them mercilessly.

sn The expression the beautiful land (Heb. הַצֶּבִי [hatsÿvi] = “the beauty”) is a cryptic reference to the land of Israel. Cf. 11:16, 41, where it is preceded by the word אֶרֶץ (’erets, “land”).