Daniel 4:22
Konteks4:22 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
Konteks6:15 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
Konteks9:23 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
Konteks6:7 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.
[4:22] 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.
[6:15] 2 tc Theodotion lacks the words “came by collusion to the king and.”
[6:15] 4 tn Aram “know”; NAB “Keep in mind”; NASB “Recognize”; NIV, NCV “Remember.”
[9:23] 5 tn Or “a precious treasure”; KJV “greatly beloved”; NASB, NIV “highly esteemed.”
[9:23] 6 tn This sentence is perhaps a compound hendiadys (“give serious consideration to the revelatory vision”).