Daniel 2:10

2:10 The wise men replied to the king, “There is no man on earth who is able to disclose the king’s secret, ¹  for no king, regardless of his position and power, has ever requested such a thing from any magician, astrologer, or wise man.

Daniel 2:38

2:38 Wherever human beings, ²  wild animals, ³  and birds of the sky live – he has given them into your power. ⁴  He has given you authority over them all. You are the head of gold.

Daniel 4:35

4:35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. ⁵ 

He does as he wishes with the army of heaven

and with those who inhabit the earth.

No one slaps ⁶  his hand

and says to him, ‘What have you done?’

Daniel 6:10

6:10 When Daniel realized ⁷  that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows ⁸  in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. ⁹  Three ¹⁰  times daily he was ¹¹  kneeling ¹²  and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.

Daniel 8:7

8:7 I saw it approaching the ram. It went into a fit of rage against the ram ¹³  and struck it ¹⁴  and broke off its two horns. The ram had no ability to resist it. ¹⁵  The goat hurled the ram ¹⁶  to the ground and trampled it. No one could deliver the ram from its power. ¹⁷ 

Daniel 9:7

9:7 “You are righteous, ¹⁸  O Lord, but we are humiliated this day ¹⁹  – the people ²⁰  of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.

Daniel 9:13

9:13 Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify ²¹  the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom ²²  from your reliable moral standards. ²³ 

Daniel 9:24

9:24 “Seventy weeks ²⁴  have been determined

concerning your people and your holy city

to put an end to ²⁵  rebellion,

to bring sin ²⁶  to completion, ²⁷ 

to atone for iniquity,

to bring in perpetual ²⁸  righteousness,

to seal up ²⁹  the prophetic vision, ³⁰ 

and to anoint a most holy place. ³¹ 

[2:10]  ¹ tn Aram “matter, thing.”

[2:38]  ² tn Aram “the sons of man.”

[2:38]  ³ tn Aram “the beasts of the field.”

[2:38]  ⁴ tn Aram “hand.”

[4:35]  ⁵ tc The present translation reads כְּלָא (kÿla’), with many medieval Hebrew MSS, rather than כְּלָה (kÿlah) of BHS.

[4:35]  ⁶ tn Aram “strikes against.”

[6:10]  ⁷ tn Aram “knew.”

[6:10]  ⁸ sn In later rabbinic thought this verse was sometimes cited as a proof text for the notion that one should pray only in a house with windows. See b. Berakhot 34b.

[6:10]  ⁹ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[6:10]  ¹⁰ sn This is apparently the only specific mention in the OT of prayer being regularly offered three times a day. The practice was probably not unique to Daniel, however.

[6:10]  ¹¹ tc Read with several medieval Hebrew MSS and printed editions הֲוָה (havah) rather than the MT הוּא (hu’).

[6:10]  ¹² tn Aram “kneeling on his knees” (so NASB).

[6:10]  sn No specific posture for offering prayers is prescribed in the OT. Kneeling, as here, and standing were both practiced.

[8:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “him.”

[8:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the ram.”

[8:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “stand before him.”

[8:7]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he hurled him.” The referents of both pronouns (the male goat and the ram) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:7]  ¹⁷ sn The goat of Daniel’s vision represents Greece; the large horn represents Alexander the Great. The ram stands for Media-Persia. Alexander’s rapid conquest of the Persians involved three battles of major significance which he won against overwhelming odds: Granicus (334 B.C.), Isus (333 B.C.), and Gaugemela (331 B.C.).

[9:7]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “to you (belongs) righteousness.”

[9:7]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and to us (belongs) shame of face like this day.”

[9:7]  ²⁰ tn Heb “men.”

[9:13]  ²¹ tn Heb “we have not pacified the face of.”

[9:13]  ²² tn Or “by gaining insight.”

[9:13]  ²³ tn Heb “by your truth.” The Hebrew term does not refer here to abstract truth, however, but to the reliable moral guidance found in the covenant law. See vv 10-11.

[9:24]  ²⁴ tn Heb “sevens.” Elsewhere the term is used of a literal week (a period of seven days), cf. Gen 29:27-28; Exod 34:22; Lev 12:5; Num 28:26; Deut 16:9-10; 2 Chr 8:13; Jer 5:24; Dan 10:2-3. Gabriel unfolds the future as if it were a calendar of successive weeks. Most understand the reference here as periods of seventy “sevens” of years, or a total of 490 years.

[9:24]  ²⁵ tc Or “to finish.” The present translation reads the Qere (from the root תָּמַם, tamam) with many witnesses. The Kethib has “to seal up” (from the root הָתַם, hatam), a confusion with a reference later in the verse to sealing up the vision.

[9:24]  ²⁶ tc The present translation reads the Qere (singular), rather than the Kethib (plural).

[9:24]  ²⁷ tn The Hebrew phrase לְכַלֵּא (lÿkhalle’) is apparently an alternative (metaplastic) spelling of the root כָּלָה (kalah, “to complete, finish”), rather than a form of כָּלָא (kala’, “to shut up, restrain”), as has sometimes been supposed.

[9:24]  ²⁸ tn Or “everlasting.”

[9:24]  ²⁹ sn The act of sealing in the OT is a sign of authentication. Cf. 1 Kgs 21:8; Jer 32:10, 11, 44.

[9:24]  ³⁰ tn Heb “vision and prophecy.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[9:24]  ³¹ tn Or “the most holy place” (NASB, NLT); or “a most holy one”; or “the most holy one,” though the expression is used of places or objects elsewhere, not people.