Daniel 9:14

9:14 The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just ¹  in all he has done, ²  and we have not obeyed him. ³ 

Daniel 11:10

11:10 His sons ⁴  will wage war, mustering a large army which will advance like an overflowing river and carrying the battle all the way to the enemy’s ⁵  fortress. ⁶ 

Daniel 11:25

11:25 He will rouse his strength and enthusiasm ⁷  against the king of the south ⁸  with a large army. The king of the south will wage war with a large and very powerful army, but he will not be able to prevail because of the plans devised against him.

Daniel 1:5

1:5 So the king assigned them a daily ration ⁹  from his royal delicacies ¹⁰  and from the wine he himself drank. They were to be trained ¹¹  for the next three years. At the end of that time they were to enter the king’s service. ¹² 

Daniel 2:14

2:14 Then Daniel spoke with prudent counsel ¹³  to Arioch, who was in charge of the king’s executioners and who had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 7:5

7:5 “Then ¹⁴  a second beast appeared, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and there were three ribs ¹⁵  in its mouth between its teeth. ¹⁶  It was told, ¹⁷  ‘Get up and devour much flesh!’

Daniel 11:17

11:17 His intention ¹⁸  will be to come with the strength of his entire kingdom, and he will form alliances. ¹⁹  He will give the king of the south ²⁰  a daughter ²¹  in marriage in order to destroy the kingdom, but it will not turn out to his advantage.

[9:14]  ¹ tn Or “righteous.”

[9:14]  ² tn Heb “in all his deeds which he has done.”

[9:14]  ³ tn Heb “we have not listened to his voice.”

[11:10]  ⁴ sn The sons of Seleucus II Callinicus were Seleucus III Ceraunus (ca. 227-223 B.C.) and Antiochus III the Great (ca. 223-187 B.C.).

[11:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “his”; the referent (the enemy of the king of the north) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he will certainly come and overflow and cross over and return and be aroused unto a fortress.” The translation has attempted to simplify the syntax of this difficult sequence.

[11:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “heart.”

[11:25]  ⁸ sn This king of the south was Ptolemy Philometer (ca. 181-145 B.C.).

[1:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “a thing of a day in its day.”

[1:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “from the delicacies of the king.”

[1:5]  ¹¹ tn Or “educated.” See HALOT 179 s.v. I גדל.

[1:5]  ¹² tn Heb “stand before the king.”

[2:14]  ¹³ tn Aram “returned prudence and counsel.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[7:5]  ¹⁴ tn Aram “and behold.”

[7:5]  ¹⁵ sn The three ribs held securely in the mouth of the bear, perhaps representing Media-Persia, apparently symbolize military conquest, but the exact identity of the “ribs” is not clear. Possibly it is a reference to the Persian conquest of Lydia, Egypt, and Babylonia.

[7:5]  ¹⁶ tc The LXX lacks the phrase “between its teeth.”

[7:5]  ¹⁷ tn Aram “and thus they were saying to it.”

[11:17]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and he will set his face.” Cf. vv. 18, 19.

[11:17]  ¹⁹ tc The present translation reads מֵישָׁרִים (mesharim, “alliances”) for the MT וִישָׁרִים (viysharim, “uprightness”).

[11:17]  ²⁰ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king of the south) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:17]  ²¹ tn Heb “the daughter of the women.”

[11:17]  sn The daughter refers to Cleopatra, the daughter of Antiochus, who was given in marriage to Ptolemy V.