Discovery BoxDaniel 4:11 
Context4:11 The tree grew large and strong.
Its top reached far into the sky;
it could be seen 1 from the borders of all the land. 2
Daniel 4:20
Context4:20 The tree that you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached to the sky, and which could be seen 3 in all the land,
Daniel 8:9
Context8:9 From one of them came a small horn. 4 But it grew to be very big, toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land. 5
1 tn Aram “its sight.” So also v. 17.
2 tn Or “to the end of all the earth” (so KJV, ASV); NCV, CEV “from anywhere on earth.”
3 tn Aram “its sight.”
4 sn This small horn is Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who controlled the Seleucid kingdom from ca. 175-164
5 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”).
