Discovery BoxDaniel 1:7 
Context1:7 But the overseer of the court officials renamed them. He gave 1 Daniel the name Belteshazzar, Hananiah he named Shadrach, Mishael he named Meshach, and Azariah he named Abednego. 2
Daniel 1:18
Context1:18 When the time appointed by the king arrived, 3 the overseer of the court officials brought them into Nebuchadnezzar’s presence.
Daniel 2:34
Context2:34 You were watching as 4 a stone was cut out, 5 but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its iron and clay feet, breaking them in pieces.
Daniel 3:13
Context3:13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in a fit of rage 6 demanded that they bring 7 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego before him. So they brought them 8 before the king.
Daniel 3:20
Context3:20 He ordered strong 9 soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and to throw them into the furnace of blazing fire.
Daniel 4:7
Context4:7 When the magicians, astrologers, wise men, and diviners entered, I recounted the dream for them. But they were unable to make known its interpretation to me.
Daniel 5:1
Context5:1 King Belshazzar 10 prepared a great banquet 11 for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in front of 12 them all. 13
Daniel 8:9
Context8:9 From one of them came a small horn. 14 But it grew to be very big, toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land. 15
1 tc The LXX and Vulgate lack the verb here.
2 sn The meanings of the Babylonian names are more conjectural than is the case with the Hebrew names. The probable etymologies are as follows: Belteshazzar means “protect his life,” although the MT vocalization may suggest “Belti, protect the king” (cf. Dan 4:8); Shadrach perhaps means “command of Aku”; Meshach is of uncertain meaning; Abednego means “servant of Nego.” Assigning Babylonian names to the Hebrew youths may have been an attempt to erase from their memory their Israelite heritage.
3 tn Heb “at the end of the days which the king said to bring them.”
4 tn Aram “until.”
5 tc The LXX, Theodotion, and the Vulgate have “from a mountain,” though this is probably a harmonization with v. 45.
6 tn Aram “in anger and wrath”; NASB “in rage and anger.” The expression is a hendiadys.
7 tn The Aramaic infinitive is active.
8 tn Aram “these men.” The pronoun is used in the translation to avoid undue repetition.
9 tn This is sometimes taken as a comparative: “[some of the] strongest.”
10 sn As is clear from the extra-biblical records, it was actually Nabonidus (ca. 556-539
11 sn This scene of a Babylonian banquet calls to mind a similar grandiose event recorded in Esth 1:3-8. Persian kings were also renowned in the ancient Near Eastern world for their lavish banquets.
12 sn The king probably sat at an elevated head table.
13 tn Aram “the thousand.”
14 sn This small horn is Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who controlled the Seleucid kingdom from ca. 175-164
15 sn The expression the beautiful land (Heb. הַצֶּבִי [hatsÿvi] = “the beauty”) is a cryptic reference to the land of Israel. Cf. 11:16, 41, where it is preceded by the word אֶרֶץ (’erets, “land”).
