Daniel 9:20-27

Gabriel Brings an Answer

20 ¹While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the LORD my God for ²the holy hill of my God,

21 while I was speaking in prayer, the man ³Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, ⁴came to me in swift flight at ⁵the time of the evening sacrifice.

22 ⁶He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, "O Daniel, I have now come out to give you ⁷insight and understanding.

23 ⁸At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, ⁹and I have come to tell it to you, for ¹⁰you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word ¹¹and understand the vision.

The Seventy Weeks

24 ¹²"Seventy weeks^[a] are decreed about your people and ¹³your holy city, to finish ¹⁴the transgression, to put an end to sin, ¹⁵and to atone for iniquity, ¹⁶to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and ¹⁷to anoint a most holy place.^[b]

25 ¹⁸Know therefore and understand that ¹⁹from the going out of the word to restore and ²⁰build Jerusalem to the coming of an ²¹anointed one, a ²²prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, ²³but in a troubled time.

26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall ²⁴be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come ²⁵shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. ²⁶Its^[c] end shall come with a flood, ²⁷and to the end there shall be war. ²⁸Desolations are decreed.

27 And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week,^[d] and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. ²⁹And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until ³⁰the decreed end is poured out on the desolator."

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Daniel 9:20-27 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DANIEL 9

This chapter contains a prayer of Daniel, and the answer to it. The time, occasion, and manner of his prayer, or circumstances of it, are observed, Da 9:1-3, the parts of it, an address unto God, under various suitable epithets and characters, Da 9:4 confession of sin, of his own, of the inhabitants of the land, kings, princes, and people, which are largely dwelt upon and exaggerated, Da 9:5-15 and petitions for mercy, Da 9:16-19, then the answer follows; the time when it was ordered and given, and the person by whom it was sent, are expressed, Da 9:20-23 who delivered to him the vision of the seventy weeks to be considered by him; in which both the work of the Messiah, and the time of his coming, are clearly pointed out, Da 9:24-27.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 30

1. Isaiah 65:24
2. See ver. 16
3. See Daniel 8:16
4. See Daniel 8:18
5. Exodus 29:39; [1 Kings 18:36; Ezra 9:4, 5]
6. [Daniel 8:16]
7. [Daniel 1:4, 17]
8. [ver. 20]
9. [Daniel 10:12, 14]
10. Daniel 10:11, 19
11. [Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14]
12. [Ezekiel 4:6]
13. Nehemiah 11:1
14. Daniel 8:13
15. [Psalms 78:38; Hebrews 2:17]; See Jeremiah 31:34
16. Romans 3:25, 26; See Jeremiah 23:5, 6
17. [Psalms 45:7; Isaiah 61:1; Acts 4:26, 27]
18. [ver. 23]
19. [2 Chronicles 36:23; Ezra 1:3; Ezra 4:24; Ezra 6:15; Neh. Ezra 6:15]
20. [Psalms 51:18]
21. John 1:41
22. Isaiah 55:4
23. See Neh. 4:7, 8, 16-18
24. Isaiah 53:8; [Mark 9:12; Luke 24:26]
25. [Matthew 24:2; Mark 13:2; Luke 19:43, 44]
26. Nahum 1:8; [Daniel 11:10, 22, 26, 40]
27. Matthew 24:6, 14
28. ver. 18; See ver. 27
29. Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14; [Luke 21:20]
30. Isaiah 10:23

Footnotes 4

[a]. Or sevens; also twice in verse 25 and once in verse 26
[b]. Or thing, or one
[c]. Or His
[d]. Or seven; twice in this verse

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