Discovery BoxDaniel 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 1 requested from you.
For you have enabled me to understand the king’s dilemma.” 2
Daniel 2:45
Context2:45 You saw that a stone was cut from a mountain, but not by human hands; it smashed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold into pieces. The great God has made known to the king what will occur in the future. 3 The dream is certain, and its interpretation is reliable.”
Daniel 3:12
Context3:12 But there are Jewish men whom you appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon – Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego – and these men 4 have not shown proper respect to you, O king. They don’t serve your gods and they don’t pay homage to the golden statue that you have erected.”
Daniel 3:26
Context3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire. He called out, 5 “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the most high God, come out! Come here!”
Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego emerged from the fire. 6
Daniel 6:10
Context6:10 When Daniel realized 7 that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows 8 in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. 9 Three 10 times daily he was 11 kneeling 12 and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.
Daniel 9:11
Context9:11 “All Israel has broken 13 your law and turned away by not obeying you. 14 Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened 15 in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you. 16
Daniel 9:18
Context9:18 Listen attentively, 17 my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins 18 and the city called by your name. 19 For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, 20 but because your compassion is abundant.
1 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.
2 tn Aram “the word of the king.”
3 tn Aram “after this.”
4 sn Daniel’s absence from this scene has sparked the imagination of commentators, some of whom have suggested that perhaps he was unable to attend the dedication due to sickness or due to being away on business. Hippolytus supposed that Daniel may have been watching from a distance.
5 tn Aram “answered and said.”
6 tn Aram “from the midst of the fire.” For stylistic reasons the words “the midst of” have been left untranslated.
7 tn Aram “knew.”
8 sn In later rabbinic thought this verse was sometimes cited as a proof text for the notion that one should pray only in a house with windows. See b. Berakhot 34b.
9 map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
10 sn This is apparently the only specific mention in the OT of prayer being regularly offered three times a day. The practice was probably not unique to Daniel, however.
11 tc Read with several medieval Hebrew
12 tn Aram “kneeling on his knees” (so NASB).
sn No specific posture for offering prayers is prescribed in the OT. Kneeling, as here, and standing were both practiced.
13 tn Or “transgressed.” The Hebrew verb has the primary sense of crossing a boundary, in this case, God’s law.
14 tn Heb “by not paying attention to your voice.”
15 tn Heb “the curse and the oath which is written.” The term “curse” refers here to the judgments threatened in the Mosaic law (see Deut 28) for rebellion. The expression “the curse and the oath” is probably a hendiadys (cf. Num 5:21; Neh 10:29) referring to the fact that the covenant with its threatened judgments was ratified by solemn oath and made legally binding upon the covenant community.
16 tn Heb “him.”
17 tn Heb “turn your ear.”
18 tn Heb “desolations.” The term refers here to the ruined condition of Judah’s towns.
19 tn Heb “over which your name is called.” Cf. v. 19. This expression implies that God is the owner of his city, Jerusalem. Note the use of the idiom in 2 Sam 12:28; Isa 4:1; Amos 9:12.
20 tn Heb “praying our supplications before you.”
