Daniel 7:10

7:10 A river of fire was streaming forth

and proceeding from his presence.

Many thousands were ministering to him;

Many tens of thousands stood ready to serve him. ¹ 

The court convened ² 

and the books were opened.

Daniel 9:2

9:2 in the first year of his reign ³  I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books ⁴  that, according to the word of the LORD ⁵  disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem ⁶  were seventy in number.

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¹ tn Aram “were standing before him.”

² tn Aram “judgment sat.”

³ tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.

⁴ 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.

⁵ 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.

⁶ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.