Daniel 4:22

4:22 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 6:15

6:15 Then those men came by collusion to the king and ²  said to him, ³  “Recall, ⁴  O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or decree that the king issues can be changed.”

Daniel 9:23

9:23 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. ⁵  Therefore consider the message and understand the vision: ⁶ 

Daniel 6:7

6:7 To all the supervisors of the kingdom, the prefects, satraps, counselors, and governors it seemed like a good idea for a royal edict to be issued and an interdict to be enforced. For the next thirty days anyone who prays ⁷  to any god or human other than you, O king, should be thrown into a den of lions.

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 tc Theodotion lacks the words “came by collusion to the king and.”

³ tn Aram “the king.”

⁴ tn Aram “know”; NAB “Keep in mind”; NASB “Recognize”; NIV, NCV “Remember.”

⁵ tn Or “a precious treasure”; KJV “greatly beloved”; NASB, NIV “highly esteemed.”

⁶ tn This sentence is perhaps a compound hendiadys (“give serious consideration to the revelatory vision”).

⁷ tn Aram “prays a prayer.”