Discovery BoxDaniel 2:14 
Context2:14 Then Daniel spoke with prudent counsel 1 to Arioch, who was in charge of the king’s executioners and who had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 2:40
Context2:40 Then there will be a fourth kingdom, one strong like iron. Just like iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything, and as iron breaks in pieces 2 all of these metals, 3 so it will break in pieces and crush the others. 4
Daniel 2:48
Context2:48 Then the king elevated Daniel to high position and bestowed on him many marvelous gifts. He granted him authority over the entire province of Babylon and made him the main prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 3:2
Context3:2 Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent out a summons to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, treasurers, judges, magistrates, 5 and all the other authorities of the province to attend the dedication of the statue that he 6 had erected.
Daniel 3:19
Context3:19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and his disposition changed 7 toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders 8 to heat the furnace seven times hotter than it was normally heated.
Daniel 3:24
Context3:24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was startled and quickly got up. He said to his ministers, “Wasn’t it three men that we tied up and threw 9 into 10 the fire?” They replied to the king, “For sure, O king.”
Daniel 5:10
Context5:10 Due to the noise 11 caused by the king and his nobles, the queen mother 12 then entered the banquet room. She 13 said, “O king, live forever! Don’t be alarmed! Don’t be shaken!
Daniel 6:13
Context6:13 Then they said to the king, “Daniel, who is one of the captives 14 from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the edict that you issued. Three times daily he offers his prayer.” 15
Daniel 6:15
Context6:15 Then those men came by collusion to the king and 16 said to him, 17 “Recall, 18 O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or decree that the king issues can be changed.”
Daniel 6:17
Context6:17 Then a stone was brought and placed over the opening 19 to the den. The king sealed 20 it with his signet ring and with those 21 of his nobles so that nothing could be changed with regard to Daniel.
Daniel 6:23
Context6:23 Then the king was delighted and gave an order to haul Daniel up from the den. So Daniel was hauled up out of the den. He had no injury of any kind, because he had trusted in his God.
Daniel 7:1
Context7:1 In the first 22 year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had 23 a dream filled with visions 24 while he was lying on his bed. Then he wrote down the dream in summary fashion. 25
Daniel 7:5
Context7:5 “Then 26 a second beast appeared, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and there were three ribs 27 in its mouth between its teeth. 28 It was told, 29 ‘Get up and devour much flesh!’
Daniel 7:11
Context7:11 “Then I kept on watching because of the arrogant words of the horn that was speaking. I was watching 30 until the beast was killed and its body destroyed and thrown into 31 the flaming fire.
Daniel 7:22
Context7:22 until the Ancient of Days arrived and judgment was rendered 32 in favor of the holy ones of the Most High. Then the time came for the holy ones to take possession of the kingdom.
Daniel 8:17
Context8:17 So he approached the place where I was standing. As he came, I felt terrified and fell flat on the ground. 33 Then he said to me, “Understand, son of man, 34 that the vision pertains to the time of the end.”
Daniel 8:19
Context8:19 Then he said, “I am going to inform you about what will happen in the latter time of wrath, for the vision 35 pertains to the appointed time of the end.
Daniel 8:27
Context8:27 I, Daniel, was exhausted 36 and sick for days. Then I got up and again carried out the king’s business. But I was astonished at the vision, and there was no one to explain it.
Daniel 11:8
Context11:8 He will also take their gods into captivity to Egypt, along with their cast images and prized utensils of silver and gold. Then he will withdraw for some years from 37 the king of the north.
Daniel 11:11
Context11:11 “Then the king of the south 38 will be enraged and will march out to fight against the king of the north, who will also muster a large army, but that army will be delivered into his hand.
Daniel 11:15
Context11:15 Then the king of the north will advance and will build siege mounds and capture a well-fortified city. 39 The forces of the south will not prevail, not even his finest contingents. 40 They will have no strength to prevail.
Daniel 11:18
Context11:18 Then he will turn his attention 41 to the coastal regions and will capture many of them. But a commander 42 will bring his shameful conduct to a halt; in addition, 43 he will make him pay for his shameful conduct. 44
Daniel 11:21
Context11:21 “Then there will arise in his place a despicable person 45 to whom the royal honor has not been rightfully conferred. He will come on the scene in a time of prosperity and will seize the kingdom through deceit.
Daniel 12:13
Context12:13 But you should go your way 46 until the end. 47 You will rest and then at the end of the days you will arise to receive 48 what you have been allotted.” 49
1 tn Aram “returned prudence and counsel.” The expression is a hendiadys.
2 tc Theodotion and the Vulgate lack the phrase “and as iron breaks in pieces.”
3 tn The Aramaic text does not have this word, but it has been added in the translation for clarity.
4 tn The words “the others” are supplied from the context.
5 sn The specific duties of the seven types of officials listed here (cf. vv. 3, 27) are unclear. The Aramaic words that are used are transliterations of Akkadian or Persian technical terms whose exact meanings are uncertain. The translations given here follow suggestions set forth in BDB.
6 tn Aram “Nebuchadnezzar the king.” The proper name and title have been replaced by the relative pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
7 tn Aram “the appearance of his face was altered”; cf. NLT “his face became distorted with rage”; NAB “[his] face became livid with utter rage.”
8 tn Aram “he answered and said.”
9 tn Aram “we threw…bound.”
10 tn Aram “into the midst of.”
11 tn Aram “words of the king.”
12 tn Aram “the queen” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). In the following discourse this woman is able to recall things about Daniel that go back to the days of Nebuchadnezzar, things that Belshazzar does not seem to recollect. It is likely that she was the wife not of Belshazzar but of Nabonidus or perhaps even Nebuchadnezzar. In that case, “queen” here means “queen mother” (cf. NCV “the king’s mother”).
13 tn Aram “The queen.” The translation has used the pronoun “she” instead because repetition of the noun here would be redundant in terms of English style.
14 tn Aram “from the sons of the captivity [of].”
15 tn Aram “prays his prayer.”
16 tc Theodotion lacks the words “came by collusion to the king and.”
17 tn Aram “the king.”
18 tn Aram “know”; NAB “Keep in mind”; NASB “Recognize”; NIV, NCV “Remember.”
19 tn Aram “mouth.”
20 sn The purpose of the den being sealed was to prevent unauthorized tampering with the opening of the den. Any disturbance of the seal would immediately alert the officials to improper activity of this sort.
21 tn Aram “the signet rings.”
22 sn The first year of Belshazzar’s reign would have been ca. 553
23 tn Aram “saw.”
24 tn Aram “and visions of his head.” The Aramaic is difficult here. Some scholars add a verb thought to be missing (e.g., “the visions of his head [were alarming him]”), but there is no external evidence to support such a decision and the awkwardness of the text at this point may be original.
25 tn Aram “head of words.” The phrase is absent in Theodotion. Cf. NIV “the substance of his dream.”
26 tn Aram “and behold.”
27 sn The three ribs held securely in the mouth of the bear, perhaps representing Media-Persia, apparently symbolize military conquest, but the exact identity of the “ribs” is not clear. Possibly it is a reference to the Persian conquest of Lydia, Egypt, and Babylonia.
28 tc The LXX lacks the phrase “between its teeth.”
29 tn Aram “and thus they were saying to it.”
30 tc The LXX and Theodotion lack the words “I was watching” here. It is possible that these words in the MT are a dittography from the first part of the verse.
31 tn Aram “and given over to” (so NRSV).
32 tc In the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate the verb is active, understanding “judgment” to be the object rather than the subject of the verb (i.e., “the Ancient of Days rendered judgment”). This presupposes a different vocalization of the verb ( יְהַב [yÿhav] rather than the MT יְהִב [yÿhiv]).
33 tn Heb “on my face.”
34 tn Or “human one.”
35 tn The Hebrew text does not actually state the referent (the vision Daniel saw in vv. 8-12; cf. also v. 13), which has been specified in the translation for clarity. Some Greek witnesses add “the vision” here.
36 tn The Hebrew word here is נִהְיֵיתִי (nihyetiy). Its meaning is not entirely clear. Hebrew הָיָה (hayah) normally has meanings such as “to be” or “become.” Here, however, it describes Daniel’s emotional and physical response to the enigmatic vision that he has seen. It is parallel to the following verb, which refers to illness, and seems to refer to a state of utter exhaustion due to the amazing things that Daniel has just seen. The LXX lacks the word. On the meaning of the word see further, BDB 227-28 s.v. הָיָה Niph.2; DCH 2:540 s.v. היה I Ni.3.
37 tn The Hebrew preposition מִן (min) is used here with the verb עָמַד (’amad, “to stand”). It probably has a sense of separation (“stand away from”), although it may also be understood in an adversative sense (“stand against”).
38 sn This king of the south refers to Ptolemy IV Philopator (ca. 221-204
39 sn This well-fortified city is apparently Sidon. Its capture from the Ptolemies by Antiochus the Great was a strategic victory for the Seleucid kingdom.
40 tn Or “choice troops” (BDB 104 s.v. מִבְחָר), or “elite troops” (HALOT 542 s.v. מִבְחָר).
41 tn Heb “his face.” See v. 19 as well.
42 sn The commander is probably the Roman commander, Lucius Cornelius Scipio.
43 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.
44 tn Heb “his shameful conduct he will return to him.”
45 sn This despicable person to whom the royal honor has not been rightfully conferred is Antiochus IV Epiphanes (ca. 175-164
46 tn The words “your way” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.
47 tc The LXX lacks “until the end.”
48 tn The word “receive” is added in the translation for clarification.
49 sn The deuterocanonical writings known as the Story of Susanna and Bel and the Dragon appear respectively as chapters 13 and 14 of the book of Daniel in the Greek version of this book. Although these writings are not part of the Hebrew/Aramaic text of Daniel, they were popular among certain early communities who valued traditions about the life of Daniel.
