Discovery BoxDaniel 4:20-22 
Context4:20 The tree that you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached to the sky, and which could be seen 1 in all the land, 4:21 whose foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful, and from which there was food available for all, under whose branches wild animals 2 used to live, and in whose branches birds of the sky used to nest – 4:22 it is you, 3 O king! For you have become great and strong. Your greatness is such that it reaches to heaven, and your authority to the ends of the earth.
1 tn Aram “its sight.”
2 tn Aram “the beasts of the field” (also in vv. 23, 25, 32).
3 sn Much of modern scholarship views this chapter as a distortion of traditions that were originally associated with Nabonidus rather than with Nebuchadnezzar. A Qumran text, the Prayer of Nabonidus, is often cited for parallels to these events.
