Footnotes

1. Daniel 6:24 tn Aram “said.”
2. Daniel 6:24 tn Aram “had eaten the pieces of.” The Aramaic expression is ironic, in that the accusers who had figuratively “eaten the pieces of Daniel” are themselves literally devoured by the lions.
3. Daniel 6:24 tn The Aramaic active impersonal verb is often used as a substitute for the passive.
4. Daniel 6:24 tc The LXX specifies only the two overseers, together with their families, as those who were cast into the lions’ den.