Discovery BoxDaniel 2:35 
Context2:35 Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were broken in pieces without distinction 1 and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors that the wind carries away. Not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a large mountain that filled the entire earth.
Daniel 2:41
Context2:41 In that you were seeing feet and toes 2 partly of wet clay 3 and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom. Some of the strength of iron will be in it, for you saw iron mixed with wet clay. 4
Daniel 4:36
Context4:36 At that time my sanity returned to me. I was restored 5 to the honor of my kingdom, and my splendor returned to me. My ministers and my nobles were seeking me out, and I was reinstated 6 over my kingdom. I became even greater than before.
Daniel 5:19
Context5:19 Due to the greatness that he bestowed on him, all peoples, nations, and language groups were trembling with fear 7 before him. He killed whom he wished, he spared 8 whom he wished, he exalted whom he wished, and he brought low whom he wished.
Daniel 6:24
Context6:24 The king gave another order, 9 and those men who had maliciously accused 10 Daniel were brought and thrown 11 into the lions’ den – they, their children, and their wives. 12 They did not even reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
Daniel 7:4
Context7:4 “The first one was like a lion with eagles’ wings. As I watched, its wings were pulled off and it was lifted up from the ground. It was made to stand on two feet like a human being, and a human mind 13 was given to it. 14
Daniel 7:8
Context7:8 “As I was contemplating the horns, another horn – a small one – came up between them, and three of the former horns were torn out by the roots to make room for it. 15 This horn had eyes resembling human eyes and a mouth speaking arrogant 16 things.
Daniel 9:2
Context9:2 in the first year of his reign 17 I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books 18 that, according to the word of the LORD 19 disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem 20 were seventy in number.
Daniel 10:12
Context10:12 Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel, for from the very first day you applied your mind 21 to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come in response to your words.
1 tn Aram “as one.” For the meaning “without distinction” see the following: F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 36, §64, and p. 93; E. Vogt, Lexicon linguae aramaicae, 60.
2 tc The LXX lacks “and toes.”
3 tn Aram “potter’s clay.”
4 tn Aram “clay of clay” (also in v. 43).
5 tc The translation reads הַדְרֵת (hadret, “I returned”) rather than the MT הַדְרִי (hadri, “my honor”); cf. Theodotion.
6 tc The translation reads הָתְקְנֵת (hotqÿnet, “I was established”) rather than the MT הָתְקְנַת (hotqÿnat, “it was established”). As it stands, the MT makes no sense here.
7 tn Aram “were trembling and fearing.” This can be treated as a hendiadys, “were trembling with fear.”
8 tn Aram “let live.” This Aramaic form is the aphel participle of חַיָה(khayah, “to live”). Theodotion and the Vulgate mistakenly take the form to be from מְחָא (mÿkha’, “to smite”).
9 tn Aram “said.”
10 tn Aram “had eaten the pieces of.” The Aramaic expression is ironic, in that the accusers who had figuratively “eaten the pieces of Daniel” are themselves literally devoured by the lions.
11 tn The Aramaic active impersonal verb is often used as a substitute for the passive.
12 tc The LXX specifies only the two overseers, together with their families, as those who were cast into the lions’ den.
13 tn Aram “heart of a man.”
14 sn The identity of the first animal, derived from v. 17 and the parallels in chap. 2, is Babylon. The reference to the plucking of its wings is probably a reference to the time of Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity (cf. chap. 4). The latter part of v. 4 then describes the restoration of Nebuchadnezzar. The other animals have traditionally been understood to represent respectively Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome, although most of modern scholarship identifies them as Media, Persia, and Greece. For a biblical parallel to the mention of lion, bear, and leopard together, see Hos 13:7-8.
15 tn Aram “were uprooted from before it.”
16 tn Aram “great.” So also in vv. 11, 20.
17 tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.
18 tn The Hebrew text has “books”; the word “sacred” has been added in the translation to clarify that it is Scriptures that are referred to.
19 sn The tetragrammaton (the four Hebrew letters which constitute the divine Name, YHWH) appears eight times in this chapter, and nowhere else in the book of Daniel.
20 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
21 tn Heb “gave your heart.”
