Daniel 7:1

In the first ¹  year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had ²  a dream filled with visions ³  while he was lying on his bed. Then he wrote down the dream in summary fashion. ⁴ 

Ge 15:1; Ge 46:2; Nu 12:6; Job 4:13; Job 33:14-16; Isa 8:1; Isa 30:8; Jer 23:28; Jer 27:7; Eze 1:1; Da 2:1,28,29; Da 4:5; Da 5:1,22,30; Da 7:7,13,15; Da 8:1; Joe 2:28; Am 3:7; Hab 2:2; Ac 2:17,18; Ro 15:4; 2Co 12:1; Re 1:19; Re 10:4

¹ sn The first year of Belshazzar’s reign would have been ca. 553 B.C. Daniel would have been approximately 67 years old at the time of this vision.

² tn Aram “saw.”

³ tn Aram “and visions of his head.” The Aramaic is difficult here. Some scholars add a verb thought to be missing (e.g., “the visions of his head [were alarming him]”), but there is no external evidence to support such a decision and the awkwardness of the text at this point may be original.

⁴ tn Aram “head of words.” The phrase is absent in Theodotion. Cf. NIV “the substance of his dream.”