Discovery BoxDaniel 1:17 
Context1:17 Now as for these four young men, God endowed them with knowledge and skill in all sorts of literature and wisdom – and Daniel had insight into all kinds of visions and dreams.
Daniel 1:19
Context1:19 When the king spoke with them, he did not find among the entire group 1 anyone like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, or Azariah. So they entered the king’s service. 2
Daniel 2:18
Context2:18 He asked them to pray for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery so that he 3 and his friends would not be destroyed along with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 3:14
Context3:14 Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my gods and that you don’t pay homage to the golden statue that I erected?
Daniel 3:25
Context3:25 He answered, “But I see four men, untied and walking around in the midst of the fire! No harm has come to them! And the appearance of the fourth is like that of a god!” 4
Daniel 5:3
Context5:3 So they brought the gold and silver 5 vessels that had been confiscated from the temple, the house of God 6 in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, together with his wives and concubines, drank from them.
Daniel 7:24
Context7:24 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 7 three kings.
Daniel 8:10
Context8:10 It grew so big it reached the army 8 of heaven, and it brought about the fall of some of the army and some of the stars 9 to the ground, where it trampled them.
Daniel 11:7
Context11:7 “There will arise in his 10 place one from her family line 11 who will come against their army and will enter the stronghold of the king of the north and will move against them successfully. 12
Daniel 11:18
Context11:18 Then he will turn his attention 13 to the coastal regions and will capture many of them. But a commander 14 will bring his shameful conduct to a halt; in addition, 15 he will make him pay for his shameful conduct. 16
Daniel 11:37
Context11:37 He will not respect 17 the gods of his fathers – not even the god loved by women. 18 He will not respect any god; he will elevate himself above them all.
Daniel 11:39
Context11:39 He will attack 19 mighty fortresses, aided by 20 a foreign deity. To those who recognize him he will grant considerable honor. He will place them in authority over many people, and he will parcel out land for a price. 21
1 tn Heb “from all of them.”
2 tn Heb “stood before the king.”
3 tn Aram “Daniel.” The proper name is redundant here in English, and has not been included in the translation.
4 sn The phrase like that of a god is in Aramaic “like that of a son of the gods.” Many patristic writers understood this phrase in a christological sense (i.e., “the Son of God”). But it should be remembered that these are words spoken by a pagan who is seeking to explain things from his own polytheistic frame of reference; for him the phrase “like a son of the gods” is equivalent to “like a divine being.”
5 tc The present translation reads וְכַסְפָּא (vÿkhaspa’, “and the silver”) with Theodotion and the Vulgate. Cf. v. 2. The form was probably accidentally dropped from the Aramaic text by homoioteleuton.
6 tn Aram “the temple of the house of God.” The phrase seems rather awkward. The Vulgate lacks “of the house of God,” while Theodotion and the Syriac lack “the house.”
7 tn Or “subjugate”; KJV, NASB, NIV “subdue”; ASV, NRSV “put down.”
8 tn Traditionally, “host.” The term refers to God’s heavenly angelic assembly, which he sometimes leads into battle as an army.
9 sn In prescientific Israelite thinking the stars were associated with the angelic members of God’s heavenly assembly. See Judg 5:20; Job 38:7; Isa 40:26. In west Semitic mythology the stars were members of the high god’s divine assembly (see Isa 14:13).
10 sn The reference is to the king of Egypt.
11 tn Heb “the stock of her roots.”
sn The reference to one from her family line is probably to Berenice’s brother, Ptolemy III Euergetes (ca. 246-221
12 tn Heb “will deal with them and prevail.”
13 tn Heb “his face.” See v. 19 as well.
14 sn The commander is probably the Roman commander, Lucius Cornelius Scipio.
15 tn The Hebrew here is difficult in that the negative בִּלְתִּי (biltiy, “not”) is used in an unusual way. The sense is not entirely clear.
16 tn Heb “his shameful conduct he will return to him.”
17 tn Heb “consider.”
18 tn Heb “[the one] desired by women.” The referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
19 tn Heb “act against.”
20 tn Heb “with.”
21 tn Or perhaps “for a reward.”
