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[a]The chief chamberlain changed their names: Daniel to Belteshazzar, Hananiah to Shadrach, Mishael to Meshach, and Azariah to Abednego.

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  1. 1:7 Other prominent Jews with Babylonian names include Sheshbazzar and Zerubabbel, who were leaders of the postexilic community.

26 The king asked Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Can you tell me the dream that I had and its meaning?”

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The Chaldeans answered the king in Aramaic:[a] “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream and we will give its meaning.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2:4 Aramaic: a gloss to indicate that at this point the text switches from Hebrew to Aramaic, which continues through the end of chap. 7; at 8:1, the text switches back to Hebrew.

Chapter 10

An Angelic Vision.[a] In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a revelation was given to Daniel, who had been named Belteshazzar. The revelation was certain: a great war;[b] he understood this from the vision.

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  1. 10:1–12:13 This final vision is concerned with history from the time of Cyrus to the death of Antiochus Epiphanes.
  2. 10:1 A great war: or “the service was great,” or “a mighty host.” The Hebrew is ambiguous.