Discovery BoxDaniel 7:4 
Context7:4 “The first one was like a lion with eagles’ wings. As I watched, its wings were pulled off and it was lifted up from the ground. It was made to stand on two feet like a human being, and a human mind 1 was given to it. 2
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.
Daniel 10:12
Context10:12 Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel, for from the very first day you applied your mind 7 to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come in response to your words.
1 tn Aram “heart of a man.”
2 sn The identity of the first animal, derived from v. 17 and the parallels in chap. 2, is Babylon. The reference to the plucking of its wings is probably a reference to the time of Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity (cf. chap. 4). The latter part of v. 4 then describes the restoration of Nebuchadnezzar. The other animals have traditionally been understood to represent respectively Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome, although most of modern scholarship identifies them as Media, Persia, and Greece. For a biblical parallel to the mention of lion, bear, and leopard together, see Hos 13:7-8.
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.
7 tn Heb “gave your heart.”
