Daniel 4:25

4:25 You will be driven ¹  from human society, ²  and you will live ³  with the wild animals. You will be fed ⁴  grass like oxen, ⁵  and you will become damp with the dew of the sky. Seven periods of time will pass by for you, before ⁶  you understand that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms and gives them to whomever he wishes.

Daniel 6:12

6:12 So they approached the king and said to him, ⁷  “Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?” The king replied, “That is correct, ⁸  according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

Daniel 11:6

11:6 After some years have passed, they ⁹  will form an alliance. Then the daughter ¹⁰  of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement, but she will not retain her power, ¹¹  nor will he continue ¹²  in his strength. ¹³  She, together with the one who brought her, her child, ¹⁴  and her benefactor will all be delivered over at that time. ¹⁵ 

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¹ tn The Aramaic indefinite active plural is used here like the English passive. So also in v. 28, 29,32.

² tn Aram “from mankind.” So also in v. 32.

³ tn Aram “your dwelling will be.” So also in v. 32.

⁴ tn Or perhaps “be made to eat.”

⁵ sn Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity has features that are associated with the mental disorder known as boanthropy, in which the person so afflicted imagines himself to be an ox or a similar animal and behaves accordingly.

⁶ tn Aram “until.”

⁷ tc The MT also has “about the edict of the king,” but this phrase is absent in the LXX and the Syriac. The present translation deletes the expression.

tn Aram “before the king.”

⁸ tn Aram “the word is true.”

⁹ sn Here they refers to Ptolemy II Philadelphus (ca. 285-246 B.C.) and Antiochus II Theos (ca. 262-246 B.C.).

¹⁰ sn The daughter refers to Berenice, who was given in marriage to Antiochus II Theos.

¹¹ tn Heb “the strength of the arm.”

¹² tn Heb “stand.” So also in vv. 7, 8, 11, 13.

¹³ tn Heb “and his arm.” Some understand this to refer to the descendants of the king of the north.

¹⁴ tc The present translation reads יַלְדָּה (yaldah, “her child”) rather than the MT יֹלְדָהּ (yolÿdah, “the one who begot her”). Cf. Theodotion, the Syriac, and the Vulgate.

¹⁵ sn Antiochus II eventually divorced Berenice and remarried his former wife Laodice, who then poisoned her husband, had Berenice put to death, and installed her own son, Seleucus II Callinicus (ca. 246-227 B.C.), as the Seleucid king.