Footnotes

1. Daniel 2:2 tn Heb “said.” So also in v. 12.
2. Daniel 2:2 tn Heb “Chaldeans.” The term Chaldeans (Hebrew כַּשְׂדִּים, kasdim) is used in the book of Daniel both in an ethnic sense and, as here, to refer to a caste of Babylonian wise men and astrologers.
3. Daniel 2:2 tn Heb “to explain to the king his dreams.”
4. Daniel 2:2 tn Heb “stood before the king.”