Daniel 1:19
Konteks1:19 When the king spoke with them, he did not find among the entire group 1 anyone like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, or Azariah. So they entered the king’s service. 2
Daniel 2:42
Konteks2:42 In that the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, the latter stages of this kingdom will be partly strong and partly fragile.
Daniel 6:12
Konteks6:12 So they approached the king and said to him, 3 “Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?” The king replied, “That is correct, 4 according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”
Daniel 8:21
Konteks8:21 The male goat 5 is the king of Greece, 6 and the large horn between its eyes is the first king.
Daniel 9:2
Konteks9:2 in the first year of his reign 7 I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books 8 that, according to the word of the LORD 9 disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem 10 were seventy in number.
Daniel 10:21
Konteks10:21 However, I will first tell you what is written in a dependable book. 11 (There is no one who strengthens me against these princes, 12 except Michael your 13 prince.
Daniel 11:11
Konteks11:11 “Then the king of the south 14 will be enraged and will march out to fight against the king of the north, who will also muster a large army, but that army will be delivered into his hand.
Daniel 11:31
Konteks11:31 His forces 15 will rise up and profane the fortified sanctuary, 16 stopping the daily sacrifice. In its place they will set up 17 the abomination that causes desolation.
[1:19] 1 tn Heb “from all of them.”
[1:19] 2 tn Heb “stood before the king.”
[6:12] 3 tc The MT also has “about the edict of the king,” but this phrase is absent in the LXX and the Syriac. The present translation deletes the expression.
[6:12] tn Aram “before the king.”
[6:12] 4 tn Aram “the word is true.”
[8:21] 5 tn Heb “the he-goat, the buck.” The expression is odd, and the second word may be an explanatory gloss.
[9:2] 7 tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.
[9:2] 8 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.
[9:2] 9 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.
[9:2] 10 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[10:21] 11 tn Heb “a book of truth.” Several English versions treat this as a title of some sort (cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT), although the NAB’s rendering “the truthful book” regards “truth” as an attributive adjective, as does the present translation.
[10:21] 12 tn The word “princes” is supplied for clarity.
[10:21] 13 tn The pronoun is plural in Hebrew, suggesting that Michael is the angelic prince of Daniel and his people.
[11:11] 14 sn This king of the south refers to Ptolemy IV Philopator (ca. 221-204