Discovery BoxDaniel 1:4-5 
Context1:4 young men in whom there was no physical defect and who were handsome, 1 well versed in all kinds of wisdom, well educated 2 and having keen insight, 3 and who were capable 4 of entering the king’s royal service 5 – and to teach them the literature and language 6 of the Babylonians. 7 1:5 So the king assigned them a daily ration 8 from his royal delicacies 9 and from the wine he himself drank. They were to be trained 10 for the next three years. At the end of that time they were to enter the king’s service. 11
Daniel 2:10
Context2:10 The wise men replied to the king, “There is no man on earth who is able to disclose the king’s secret, 12 for no king, regardless of his position and power, has ever requested such a thing from any magician, astrologer, or wise man.
Daniel 2:23
Context2:23 O God of my fathers, I acknowledge and glorify you,
for you have bestowed wisdom and power on me.
Now you have enabled me to understand what I 13 requested from you.
For you have enabled me to understand the king’s dilemma.” 14
Daniel 2:44
Context2:44 In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever.
Daniel 11:2
Context11:2 Now I will tell you the truth.
“Three 15 more kings will arise for Persia. Then a fourth 16 king will be unusually rich, 17 more so than all who preceded him. When he has amassed power through his riches, he will stir up everyone against 18 the kingdom of Greece.
1 tn Heb “good of appearance.”
2 tn Heb “knowers of knowledge.”
3 tn Heb “understanders of knowledge.”
4 tn Heb “who had strength.”
5 tn Heb “to stand in the palace of the king.” Cf. vv. 5, 19.
6 sn The language of the Chaldeans referred to here is Akkadian, an East Semitic cuneiform language.
7 tn Heb “Chaldeans” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV). This is an ancient name for the Babylonians.
8 tn Heb “a thing of a day in its day.”
9 tn Heb “from the delicacies of the king.”
10 tn Or “educated.” See HALOT 179 s.v. I גדל.
11 tn Heb “stand before the king.”
12 tn Aram “matter, thing.”
13 tn Aram “we.” Various explanations have been offered for the plural, but it is probably best understood as the editorial plural; so also with “me” later in this verse.
14 tn Aram “the word of the king.”
15 sn Perhaps these three more kings are Cambyses (ca. 530-522
16 sn This fourth king is Xerxes I (ca. 486-465
17 tn Heb “rich with great riches.”
18 tn The text is difficult. The Hebrew has here אֶת (’et), the marker of a definite direct object. As it stands, this would suggest the meaning that “he will arouse everyone, that is, the kingdom of Greece.” The context, however, seems to suggest the idea that this Persian king will arouse in hostility against Greece the constituent elements of his own empire. This requires supplying the word “against,” which is not actually present in the Hebrew text.
