Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWEB
So he consented to this and tested them for ten days.
YLT
And he hearkeneth to them, to this word, and trieth them ten days:
ASV
So he hearkened unto them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
DBT
And he hearkened unto them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
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