Daniel 11:33

11:33 These who are wise among the people will teach the masses. ¹  However, they will fall ²  by the sword and by the flame, ³  and they will be imprisoned and plundered for some time. ⁴ 

Daniel 11:24

11:24 In a time of prosperity for the most productive areas of the province he will come and accomplish what neither his fathers nor their fathers accomplished. He will distribute loot, spoils, and property to his followers, and he will devise plans against fortified cities, but not for long. ⁵ 

Daniel 1:2

1:2 Now the Lord ⁶  delivered ⁷  King Jehoiakim of Judah into his power, ⁸  along with some of the vessels ⁹  of the temple of God. ¹⁰  He brought them to the land of Babylonia ¹¹  to the temple of his god ¹²  and put ¹³  the vessels in the treasury of his god.

Daniel 5:20

5:20 And when his mind ¹⁴  became arrogant ¹⁵  and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.

Daniel 5:2-3

5:2 While under the influence ¹⁶  of the wine, Belshazzar issued an order to bring in the gold and silver vessels – the ones that Nebuchadnezzar his father ¹⁷  had confiscated ¹⁸  from the temple in Jerusalem ¹⁹  – so that the king and his nobles, together with his wives and his concubines, could drink from them. ²⁰  5:3 So they brought the gold and silver ²¹  vessels that had been confiscated from the temple, the house of God ²²  in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, together with his wives and concubines, drank from them.

Daniel 8:11

8:11 It also acted arrogantly against the Prince of the army, ²³  from whom ²⁴  the daily sacrifice was removed and whose sanctuary ²⁵  was thrown down.

Daniel 11:28

11:28 Then the king of the north ²⁶  will return to his own land with much property. His mind will be set against the holy covenant. He will take action, and then return to his own land.

Daniel 11:43

11:43 He will have control over the hidden stores of gold and silver, as well as all the treasures of Egypt. Libyans and Ethiopians ²⁷  will submit to him. ²⁸ 

Daniel 5:23

5:23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone – gods ²⁹  that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control ³⁰  your very breath and all your ways!

[11:33]  ¹ tn Heb “the many.”

[11:33]  ² tn Heb “stumble.”

[11:33]  ³ tn Or “by burning.”

[11:33]  ⁴ tn Heb “days.”

[11:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “and unto a time.”

[1:2]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[1:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “gave.”

[1:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “hand,” which is often used idiomatically for one’s power and authority. See BDB 390 s.v. יָד 2.

[1:2]  ⁹ tn Or “utensils”; or “articles.”

[1:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “house of God.”

[1:2]  ¹¹ sn The land of Babylonia (Heb “the land of Shinar”) is another name for Sumer and Akkad, where Babylon was located (cf. Gen 10:10; 11:2; 14:1, 9; Josh 7:21; Isa 11:11; Zech 5:11).

[1:2]  ¹² tn Or “gods” (NCV, NRSV, TEV; also later in this verse). The Hebrew term can be used as a numerical plural for many gods or as a plural of majesty for one particular god. Since Nebuchadnezzar was a polytheist, it is not clear if the reference here is to many gods or one particular deity. The plural of majesty, while normally used for Israel’s God, is occasionally used of foreign gods (cf. BDB 43 s.v. אֱלֹהִים 1, 2). See Judg 11:24 (of the Moabite god Chemosh); 1 Sam 5:7 (of the Philistine god Dagon); 1 Kgs 11:33 (of the Canaanite goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom); 2 Kgs 19:37 (of the Assyrian god Nisroch). Since gods normally had their own individual temples, Dan 1:2 probably refers to a particular deity, perhaps Marduk, the supreme god of Babylon, or Marduk’s son Nabu, after whom Nebuchadnezzar was named. The name Nebuchadnezzar means “Nabu has protected the son who will inherit” (HALOT 660 s.v. נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר). For a discussion of how temples functioned in Babylonian religion see H. Ringgren, Religions of the Ancient Near East, 77-81.

[1:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “brought.” Though the Hebrew verb “brought” is repeated in this verse, the translation uses “brought…put” for stylistic variation.

[5:20]  ¹⁴ tn Aram “heart.”

[5:20]  ¹⁵ sn The point of describing Nebuchadnezzar as arrogant is that he had usurped divine prerogatives, and because of his immense arrogance God had dealt decisively with him.

[5:2]  ¹⁶ tn Or perhaps, “when he had tasted” (cf. NASB) in the sense of officially initiating the commencement of the banquet. The translation above seems preferable, however, given the clear evidence of inebriation in the context (cf. also CEV “he got drunk and ordered”).

[5:2]  ¹⁷ tn Or “ancestor”; or “predecessor” (also in vv. 11, 13, 18). The Aramaic word translated “father” can on occasion denote these other relationships.

[5:2]  ¹⁸ tn Or “taken.”

[5:2]  ¹⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[5:2]  ²⁰ sn Making use of sacred temple vessels for an occasion of reveling and drunkenness such as this would have been a religious affront of shocking proportions to the Jewish captives.

[5:3]  ²¹ tc The present translation reads וְכַסְפָּא (vÿkhaspa’, “and the silver”) with Theodotion and the Vulgate. Cf. v. 2. The form was probably accidentally dropped from the Aramaic text by homoioteleuton.

[5:3]  ²² tn Aram “the temple of the house of God.” The phrase seems rather awkward. The Vulgate lacks “of the house of God,” while Theodotion and the Syriac lack “the house.”

[8:11]  ²³ sn The prince of the army may refer to God (cf. “whose sanctuary” later in the verse) or to the angel Michael (cf. 12:1).

[8:11]  ²⁴ tn Or perhaps “and by him,” referring to Antiochus rather than to God.

[8:11]  ²⁵ sn Here the sanctuary is a reference to the temple of God in Jerusalem.

[11:28]  ²⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king of the north) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:43]  ²⁷ tn Or “Nubians” (NIV, NCV); Heb “Cushites.”

[11:43]  ²⁸ tn Heb “Libyans and Cushites [will be] at his footsteps.”

[5:23]  ²⁹ tn Aram “which.”

[5:23]  ³⁰ tn Aram “in whose hand [are].”