Discovery BoxDaniel 7:10 
Context7:10 A river of fire was streaming forth
and proceeding from his presence.
Many thousands were ministering to him;
Many tens of thousands stood ready to serve him. 1
The court convened 2
and the books were opened.
Daniel 9:2
Context9:2 in the first year of his reign 3 I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books 4 that, according to the word of the LORD 5 disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem 6 were seventy in number.
1 tn Aram “were standing before him.”
2 tn Aram “judgment sat.”
3 tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.
4 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.
5 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.
6 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
