Daniel 6:12

6:12 So they approached the king and said to him, 1  “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, 2  according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

Daniel 11:6

11:6 After some years have passed, they 3  will form an alliance. Then the daughter 4  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, 5  nor will he continue 6  in his strength. 7  She, together with the one who brought her, her child, 8  and her benefactor will all be delivered over at that time. 9 

1 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.”

2 tn Aram “the word is true.”

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

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

5 tn Heb “the strength of the arm.”

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

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

8 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.

9 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.