Daniel 9:20-27

Gabriel Brings an Answer

20 Now while I was ¹speaking and praying, and ²confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God,

21 while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man ³Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the ⁴evening offering.

22 He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, "O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with ⁵understanding.

23 "At the ⁶beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are ⁷highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain ⁸understanding of the vision.

Seventy Weeks and the Messiah

24 "Seventy ⁹weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to ¹⁰make atonement for iniquity, to bring in ¹¹everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

25 "So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a ¹²decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until ¹³Messiah the ¹⁴Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two * weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

26 "Then after the sixty-two * weeks the Messiah will be ¹⁵cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will ¹⁶destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a ¹⁷flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

27 "And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of ¹⁸abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a ¹⁹complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate."

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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 19

1. Psalms 145:18; Isaiah 58:9; Daniel 9:3; Daniel 10:12
2. Isaiah 6:5
3. Daniel 8:16; Luke 1:19, 26
4. Exodus 29:39; 1 Kings 18:36; Ezra 9:4
5. Daniel 8:16; Daniel 10:21; Zechariah 1:9
6. Daniel 10:12
7. Daniel 10:11, 19
8. Matthew 24:15
9. Leviticus 25:8; Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:5, 6
10. 2 Chronicles 29:24; Isaiah 53:10; Romans 5:10
11. Isaiah 51:6, 8; Isaiah 56:1; Jeremiah 23:5, 6; Romans 3:21, 22
12. Ezra 4:24; Ezra 6:1-15; Nehemiah 2:1-8; Nehemiah 3:1
13. John 1:41; John 4:25
14. Isaiah 9:6; Daniel 8:11, 25
15. Isaiah 53:8; Mark 9:12; Luke 24:26
16. Matthew 24:2; Mark 13:2; Luke 19:43, 44
17. Nahum 1:8
18. Daniel 11:31; Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14; Luke 21:20
19. Isaiah 10:23; Isaiah 28:22

Footnotes 20

[a]. Lit "causing to fall"
[b]. Lit "at the beginning"
[c]. Lit "was reaching;" or "touching"
[d]. Lit "wearied with weariness"
[e]. Lit "word went out"
[f]. Lit "desirable;" or "precious"
[g]. Or "units of seven," and so throughout the ch
[h]. Or "restrain"
[i]. Another reading is "seal up sins"
[j]. Lit "prophet"
[k]. Lit "word"
[l]. Or "an anointed one"
[m]. Or "streets"
[n]. Or "anointed one"
[o]. Or "no one"
[p]. Or "his"
[q]. Or "war will be decreed for desolations"
[r]. Or "detestable things"
[s]. Or "causes horror"
[t]. Or "causes horror"