Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
WEB
This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.
YLT
This is the dream, and its interpretation we do tell before the king.
DBT
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentDaniel — A Hebrew exile at Babylonian and Persian courts sees empires rise and fall, a Son of Man coming with clouds, and seventy weeks locating Messiah in time. The canon's densest apocalyptic text — and its most interpretively contested.
- Author
- Daniel (traditional — Jesus cites ‘Daniel the prophet’ in Matt 24:15); critical scholarship dates composition to the 2nd c. BC Maccabean period (§7.9 — both surfaced)
- Date
- Traditional: 6th c. BC. Critical: c. 165 BC. Site default: traditional; critical view surfaced at depth 2