Discovery BoxDaniel 4:23 
Context4:23 As for the king seeing a holy sentinel coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave its taproot in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it, surrounded by the grass of the field. Let it become damp with the dew of the sky, and let it live with the wild animals, until seven periods of time go by for him’ –
Daniel 5:23
Context5:23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone – gods 1 that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control 2 your very breath and all your ways!
Daniel 11:6
Context11:6 After some years have passed, they 3 will form an alliance. Then the daughter 4 of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement, but she will not retain her power, 5 nor will he continue 6 in his strength. 7 She, together with the one who brought her, her child, 8 and her benefactor will all be delivered over at that time. 9
1 tn Aram “which.”
2 tn Aram “in whose hand [are].”
3 sn Here they refers to Ptolemy II Philadelphus (ca. 285-246
4 sn The daughter refers to Berenice, who was given in marriage to Antiochus II Theos.
5 tn Heb “the strength of the arm.”
6 tn Heb “stand.” So also in vv. 7, 8, 11, 13.
7 tn Heb “and his arm.” Some understand this to refer to the descendants of the king of the north.
8 tc The present translation reads יַלְדָּה (yaldah, “her child”) rather than the MT יֹלְדָהּ (yolÿdah, “the one who begot her”). Cf. Theodotion, the Syriac, and the Vulgate.
9 sn Antiochus II eventually divorced Berenice and remarried his former wife Laodice, who then poisoned her husband, had Berenice put to death, and installed her own son, Seleucus II Callinicus (ca. 246-227
