Discovery BoxDaniel 4:22 
Context4:22 it is you, 1 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.
Daniel 4:30
Context4:30 The king uttered these words: “Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence 2 by my own mighty strength 3 and for my majestic honor?”
Daniel 8:24
Context8:24 His power will be great, but it will not be by his strength alone. He will cause terrible destruction. 4 He will be successful in what he undertakes. 5 He will destroy powerful people and the people of the holy ones. 6
Daniel 9:4
Context9:4 I prayed to the LORD my God, confessing in this way:
“O Lord, 7 great and awesome God who is faithful to his covenant 8 with those who love him and keep his commandments,
Daniel 9:12
Context9:12 He has carried out his threats 9 against us and our rulers 10 who were over 11 us by bringing great calamity on us – what has happened to Jerusalem has never been equaled under all heaven!
Daniel 9:15
Context9:15 “Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with great power 12 and made a name for yourself that is remembered to this day – we have sinned and behaved wickedly.
Daniel 9:23
Context9:23 At the beginning of your requests a message went out, and I have come to convey it to you, for you are of great value in God’s sight. 13 Therefore consider the message and understand the vision: 14
Daniel 10:1
Context10:1 15 In the third 16 year of King Cyrus of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel (who was also called Belteshazzar). This message was true and concerned a great war. 17 He understood the message and gained insight by the vision.
1 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.
2 tn Aram “house.”
3 tn Aram “by the might of my strength.”
4 tn Heb “extraordinarily he will destroy.”
5 tn Heb “he will succeed and act.”
6 tn See the corresponding Aramaic expression in 7:27. If the “holy ones” are angels, then this probably refers to the angels as protectors of God’s people. One could translate, “people belonging to (i.e., protected by) the holy ones.” If the “holy ones” are God’s people, then this is an appositional construction, “the people who are the holy ones.” One could translate simply “holy people.” For examples of a plural appositional genitive after “people,” see 11:15, 32. Because either interpretation is possible, the translation has deliberately preserved the ambiguity of the Hebrew grammar here.
7 tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here and in vv. 7, 9, 15, 16, and 19 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
8 tn Heb “who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.
9 tn Heb “he has fulfilled his word(s) which he spoke.”
10 tn Heb “our judges.”
11 tn Heb “who judged.”
12 tn Heb “with a powerful hand.”
13 tn Or “a precious treasure”; KJV “greatly beloved”; NASB, NIV “highly esteemed.”
14 tn This sentence is perhaps a compound hendiadys (“give serious consideration to the revelatory vision”).
15 sn This chapter begins the final unit in the book of Daniel, consisting of chapters 10-12. The traditional chapter divisions to some extent obscure the relationship of these chapters.
16 tc The LXX has “first.”
sn Cyrus’ third year would have been ca. 536
17 tn The meaning of the Hebrew word צָבָא (tsava’) is uncertain in this context. The word most often refers to an army or warfare. It may also mean “hard service,” and many commentators take that to be the sense here (i.e., “the service was great”). The present translation assumes the reference to be to the spiritual conflicts described, for example, in 10:16–11:1.
