1 In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,
2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood the number of the years by the books, from the Word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
3 And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
4 And I prayed to Jehovah my God, and made my confession, saying, O Lord, the great and awesome Mighty God, keeping the covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments,
5 we have sinned and have committed iniquity and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your commandments and from Your judgments.
6 And we have not heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our rulers, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7 O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us the shame of face, as it is this day to the men of Judah, and to those living in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near and who are afar in all the lands where You have driven them for their unfaithfulness which they have trespassed against You.
8 O Lord, shame of face belongs to us, to our kings, to our rulers and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him.
10 We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws which he set before us by His servants the prophets.
11 Yea, all Israel has transgressed Your Law and turned aside so as not to obey Your voice. For this reason the curse has poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.
12 And He has confirmed His Words which He spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil. For under the whole heavens it has never been done as has been done to Jerusalem.
13 As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we did not make our prayer before Jehovah our God that we might turn from our depravities and understand Your truth.
14 And Jehovah has looked on the evil and has brought it upon us. For Jehovah our God is righteous in all His works which He does. For we did not obey His voice.
15 And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and made for Yourself a name, as it is this day; we have sinned; we have done wickedly.
16 O Lord, I pray, according to all Your righteousness, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. For because of our sins and for our fathers' iniquities, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.
17 And now, hear, O our God, the prayer of Your servant and his supplications, and cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary that is desolate, for the sake of the Lord.
18 O my God, bow down Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name. For we do not make our supplications before You on account of our righteousness, but because of Your great mercies.
19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, give attention and act! Do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God. For Your city and Your people are called by Your name.
20 And while I was speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and prostrating with my supplication before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God,
21 and while I was speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, reached me as I was weary and faint, about the time of the evening sacrifice.
22 And he informed me and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill in understanding.
23 At the beginning of your prayers the word came forth, and I have come to explain it. For you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter and understand the vision:
24 Seventy weeks are decreed regarding your people, and regarding your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.
25 Know, therefore, and understand that from the going forth of the word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem, to Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks and sixty two weeks. The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in times of distress.
26 And after sixty two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of a coming ruler shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end shall be with a flood, and desolations are determined, and there shall be war until the end.
27 And he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week. And in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the grain offering to cease. And on a corner will be abominations that cause horror, even until the end. And that which was decreed shall be poured out on the desolate.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 1 Dan 9:1 Daniel, considering the time of the captivity,
Dan 9:3 makes confession of sins,
Dan 9:16 and prays for the restoration of Jerusalem.
Dan 9:20 Gabriel informs him of the seventy weeks.
A.M. 3466. B.C. 538. Darius.
Dan 1:21 Dan 5:31 Dan 6:1 Dan 6:28 Dan 11:1Ahasuerus. This was the Astyages of the heathen historians; as we learn from Tobit 14:15, where the taking of Nineveh is ascribed to Nebuchadnezzar and Assuerus, who were the same with Nabopolassar and Astyages.
which. or, in which he, etc.
2 understood.
Dan 8:15 Dan 8:16 Ps 119:24 Ps 119:99 Ps 119:100 Matt 24:15 Mark 13:14 Acts 8:34 1Tim 4:13 2Tim 3:15 -
2Tim 3:17 1Pet 1:10 -
1Pet 1:12 2Pet 1:19 -
2Pet 1:21 Rev 1:3to Jeremiah.
2Chr 36:21 Jer 25:11 Jer 25:12 Jer 27:7 Jer 29:10 Zech 7:5the desolations.
Ps 74:3 -
Ps 74:7 Ps 79:1 Ps 79:2 Isa 6:11 Isa 6:12 Isa 24:10 -
Isa 24:12 Isa 64:10 Jer 7:34 Jer 25:18 Jer 26:6 Jer 26:18 Lam 1:1 Mic 3:12 3 I set.
Dan 6:10 Neh 1:4 -
Neh 1:11 Ps 102:13 -
Ps 102:17 Jer 29:10 -
Jer 29:13 Jer 33:3 Ezek 36:37 Jas 5:16 -
Jas 5:18with.
Dan 10:2 Dan 10:3 Ezra 8:21 Ezra 9:5 Ezra 10:6 Neh 1:4 Neh 9:1 Esth 4:1 -
Esth 4:3 Esth 4:16 Ps 35:13 Ps 69:10 Ps 69:11 Isa 22:12 Joel 1:13 Joel 2:12 Jonah 3:6 -
Jonah 3:9 Luke 2:37 Acts 10:30 Jas 4:8 -
Jas 4:10 4 made.
Dan 9:5 -
Dan 9:12 Lev 26:40 -
Lev 26:42 1Kgs 8:47 -
1Kgs 8:49 2Chr 7:14 Neh 9:2 Neh 9:3 Ps 32:5 Jer 3:13 1John 1:8 -
1John 1:10the great.
Exod 20:6 Exod 34:6 Exod 34:7 Num 14:18 Num 14:19 Deut 5:10 Deut 7:9 1Kgs 8:23 Neh 1:5 Neh 9:32 Jer 32:17 -
Jer 32:19 Mic 7:18 -
Mic 7:20 Nah 1:2 -
Nah 1:7 Luke 1:72 Rom 8:28 Jas 1:12 Jas 2:5 1John 5:2 1John 5:3 5 have sinned.
Dan 9:15 1Kgs 8:47 -
1Kgs 8:50 2Chr 6:37 -
2Chr 6:39 Ezra 9:6 Neh 1:6 -
Neh 1:8 Neh 9:33 Neh 9:34 Ps 106:6 Isa 64:5 -
Isa 64:7 Jer 3:25 Jer 14:7departing.
Ps 18:21 Ps 119:102 Isa 59:13 Ezek 6:9 Hos 1:2 Mal 3:7 Heb 3:12 6 have we.
Dan 9:10 2Kgs 17:13 2Kgs 17:14 2Chr 33:10 2Chr 36:15 2Chr 36:16 Isa 30:10 Isa 30:11 Jer 6:16 Jer 6:17 Jer 7:13 Jer 7:25 Jer 7:26 Jer 25:3 -
Jer 25:7 Jer 26:5 Jer 29:19 Jer 32:32 Jer 32:33 Jer 44:4 Jer 44:5 Jer 44:16 Zech 1:4 -
Zech 1:6 Zech 7:8 -
Zech 7:12 Matt 21:34 -
Matt 21:40 Matt 23:37 Luke 20:10 -
Luke 20:12 Acts 7:51 Acts 7:52 Acts 13:27 1Thess 2:15 1Thess 2:16our kings.
Ezra 9:7 Neh 9:32 Neh 9:34 7 righteousness.
Dan 9:8 Dan 9:14 Deut 32:4 Ezra 9:13 Neh 9:33 Ps 51:4 Ps 51:14 Ps 119:137 Jer 12:1 Luke 23:40 Luke 23:41belongeth unto thee. or, thou hast, etc. unto us.
Ezra 9:6 Ezra 9:7 Ps 44:15 Isa 45:16 Jer 2:26 Jer 2:27 Jer 3:25 Ezek 16:63 Ezek 36:31 Rom 6:21near.
Deut 4:27 2Kgs 17:6 2Kgs 17:7 Isa 11:11 Jer 24:9 Amos 9:9 Acts 2:5 -
Acts 2:11whither.
Lev 26:33 Lev 26:34 8 to us.
Dan 9:6 Dan 9:7because.
Jer 14:20 Lam 1:7 Lam 1:8 Lam 1:18 Lam 3:42 Lam 5:16 9 To the Lord. From God's goodness flow His mercies; and from His mercies, forgiveness.
Dan 9:7 Exod 34:6 Exod 34:7 Num 14:18 Num 14:19 Neh 9:17 Neh 9:31 Ps 62:12 Ps 86:5 Ps 86:15 Ps 130:4 Ps 130:7 Ps 145:8 Ps 145:9 Isa 55:7 Isa 63:7 Lam 3:22 Lam 3:23 Jonah 4:2 Mic 7:18 Mic 7:19 Eph 1:6 -
Eph 1:8 Eph 2:4 -
Eph 2:7though.
Dan 9:5 Neh 9:18 Neh 9:19 Neh 9:26 -
Neh 9:28 Ps 106:43 -
Ps 106:45 Jer 14:7 Ezek 20:8 Ezek 20:9 Ezek 20:13 10 which.
Dan 9:6 2Kgs 17:13 2Kgs 18:12 Ezra 9:10 Ezra 9:11 Neh 9:13 -
Neh 9:17 Heb 1:1 11 all.
2Kgs 17:18 -
2Kgs 17:23 Isa 1:4 -
Isa 1:6 Jer 8:5 -
Jer 8:10 Jer 9:26 Ezek 22:26 -
Ezek 22:31the curse.
Lev 26:14 -
Lev 26:46 Deut 27:15 -
Deut 27:26 Deut 28:15 -
Deut 28:68 Deut 29:20 -
Deut 29:29 Deut 30:17 -
Deut 30:19 Deut 31:17 Deut 31:18 Deut 32:19 -
Deut 32:42 12 confirmed.
Isa 44:26 Lam 2:17 Ezek 13:6 Zech 1:8 Matt 5:18 Rom 15:8our judges.
1Kgs 3:9 Job 12:17 Ps 2:10 Ps 148:11 Pro 8:16for under. The destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and the condition of the Jews during almost eighteen centuries, have far more exceeded all the miseries of the capture of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, and in the Babylonish captivity, than those miseries exceeded the judgments inflicted on other nations; for the guilt of crucifying the Messiah, and rejecting his gospel, was immensely more atrocious than all their other transgressions.
Lam 1:12 Lam 2:13 Lam 4:6 Ezek 5:9 Joel 2:2 Amos 3:2 Matt 24:21 Mark 13:19 Luke 21:22 13 As it is. Thus every succeeding part of the Sacred writings attests and prove the Divine authority of the preceding. The history relates the fulfilment of former predictions; and then new prophecies are add, which future events accomplish, and thus demonstrate their inspiration to the latest ages.
Dan 9:11 Lev 26:14 -
Lev 26:46 Deut 28:15 -
Deut 28:68 Isa 42:9 Lam 2:15 -
Lam 2:17 John 10:35made we not our prayer before. Heb. intreated we not theface of.
Job 36:13 Isa 9:13 Jer 2:30 Jer 5:3 Hos 7:7 Hos 7:10 Hos 7:14that we.
Deut 29:4 Ps 85:4 Ps 119:18 Ps 119:27 Ps 119:73 Isa 64:7 Jer 31:18 Jer 44:27 Lam 5:21 Luke 24:45 John 6:45 John 8:32 Eph 1:17 Eph 1:18 Eph 4:21 Jas 1:5 14 watched.
Jer 31:28 Jer 44:27the Lord.
Dan 9:7 Neh 9:33 Ps 51:14for.
Dan 9:10 15 that hast.
Exod 6:1 Exod 6:6 Exod 14:1 -
Exod 15:27 Exod 32:11 1Kgs 8:51 Neh 1:10 Jer 32:20 -
Jer 32:23 2Cor 1:10and hast.
Exod 9:16 Exod 14:18 Neh 9:10 Ps 106:8 Isa 55:13 Jer 32:10gotten thee renown. Heb. made thee a name. we have sinned.
Dan 9:5 Luke 15:18 Luke 15:19 Luke 15:21 Luke 18:13 16 according.
1Sam 2:7 Neh 9:8 Ps 31:1 Ps 71:2 Ps 143:1 Mic 6:4 Mic 6:5 2Thess 1:6 1John 1:9thy holy.
Dan 9:20 Ps 87:1 -
Ps 87:3 Joel 3:17 Zech 8:3for the.
Exod 20:5 Lev 26:39 Lev 26:40 Ps 106:6 -
Ps 106:48 Matt 23:31 Matt 23:32 Luke 11:47 -
Luke 11:51Jerusalem.
1Kgs 9:7 -
1Kgs 9:9 Ps 41:13 Ps 79:4 Isa 64:9 -
Isa 64:11 Jer 24:9 Jer 29:18 Lam 1:8 Lam 1:9 Lam 2:15 Lam 2:16 17 cause.
Num 6:23 -
Num 6:26 Ps 4:6 Ps 67:1 Ps 80:1 Ps 80:3 Ps 80:7 Ps 80:19 Ps 119:135 Rev 21:23thy sanctuary.
Lam 5:18for.
Dan 9:19 John 16:24 2Cor 1:20 18 incline.
1Kgs 8:29 2Kgs 19:16 Ps 17:6 Ps 17:7 Isa 37:17 Isa 63:15 -
Isa 63:19 Isa 64:12behold.
Exod 3:7 Ps 80:14 -
Ps 80:19which is called by thy name. Heb. whereupon thy name iscalled.
Jer 7:10 Jer 14:9 Jer 15:16 Jer 25:29 1Cor 1:2for we.
Isa 64:6 Jer 14:7 Ezek 36:32present. Heb. cause to fall.
Jer 36:7 Jer 37:20*marg:
Dan 9:18 19 O Lord, forgive.
Num 14:19 1Kgs 8:30 -
1Kgs 8:39 2Chr 6:21 2Chr 6:25 -
2Chr 6:30 2Chr 6:39 Amos 7:2 Luke 11:8defer.
Ps 44:23 -
Ps 44:26 Ps 74:9 -
Ps 74:11 Ps 79:5 Ps 85:5 Ps 85:6 Ps 102:13 Ps 102:14 Isa 64:9 -
Isa 64:12thine.
Ps 79:8 -
Ps 79:10 Ps 102:15 Ps 102:16 Ps 115:1 Ps 115:2 Jer 14:7 Jer 14:20 Jer 14:21 Ezek 20:9 Ezek 20:14 Ezek 20:22 Ezek 36:22 Ezek 39:25 Eph 1:6 Eph 1:12 Eph 3:10for thy.
Dan 9:18 Ps 79:6 Isa 63:16 -
Isa 63:19 Jer 14:9 Jer 25:29 20 whiles.
Dan 10:2 Ps 32:5 Ps 145:18 Isa 58:9 Isa 65:24 Acts 4:31 Acts 10:30 Acts 10:31confessing.
Dan 9:4 Eccl 7:20 Isa 6:5 Rom 3:23 Jas 3:2 1John 1:8 -
1John 1:10for.
Dan 9:16 Ps 137:5 Ps 137:6 Isa 56:7 Isa 62:6 Isa 62:7 Zech 8:3 Rev 21:2 Rev 21:10 21 the man.
Dan 8:16 Dan 10:16 Luke 1:19to fly.
Ps 103:20 Ps 104:4 Isa 6:2 Ezek 1:11 Ezek 1:14 Heb 1:7swiftly. Heb. with weariness, or flight. touched.
Dan 8:18 Dan 10:10 Dan 10:16 Dan 10:18 Isa 6:6 Isa 6:7 Acts 12:7 Heb 1:14the time.
1Kgs 18:36 Ezra 9:5 Matt 27:46 Acts 3:1 Acts 10:3 Acts 10:9 22 he informed.
Dan 9:24 -
Dan 9:27 Dan 8:16 Dan 10:21 Zech 1:9 Zech 1:14 Zech 6:4 Zech 6:5 Rev 4:1give thee skill and understanding. Heb. make thee skilful ofunderstanding
23 the beginning.
Dan 10:12commandment. Heb. word. for.
Dan 10:11 Dan 10:19 Luke 1:28greatly beloved. Heb. a man of desires.
Song 7:10 Ezek 24:16 Ezek 26:12*marg:
Dan 9:23understand.
Matt 24:15 24 Seventy weeks. That is, seventy weeks of years, or 490 years, which reckoned from the seventh year of Artaxerxes, coinciding with the 4,256th year of the Julian period, and in the month
Nisan, in which Ezra was commissioned to restore the Jewish state and polity, (
Ezra 7:9 -
Ezra 7:26) will bring us to the month of Nisan of the 4,746th year of the same period, or A.D. 33, the very month and year in which our Lord suffered, and completed the work of our salvation.
Lev 25:8 Num 14:34 Ezek 4:6finish. or, restrain.
Matt 1:21 1John 3:8and to.
Lam 4:22 Col 2:14 Heb 9:26 Heb 10:14make an end of. or, seal up.
Ezek 28:12to make.
Lev 8:15 2Chr 29:24 Isa 53:10 Rom 5:10 2Cor 5:18 -
2Cor 5:20 Col 1:20 Heb 2:17to bring.
Isa 51:6 Isa 51:8 Isa 53:11 Isa 56:1 Jer 23:5 Jer 23:6 Rom 3:21 Rom 3:22 1Cor 1:30 2Cor 5:21 Phil 3:9 Heb 9:12 -
Heb 9:14 2Pet 1:1 Rev 14:6seal up.
Matt 11:13 Luke 24:25 -
Luke 24:27 Luke 24:44 Luke 24:45 John 19:28 -
John 19:30prophecy. Heb. prophet.
Acts 3:22and to anoint.
Ps 2:6 Ps 45:7 Isa 61:1 Luke 4:18 -
Luke 4:21 John 1:41 John 3:34 Heb 1:8 Heb 1:9 Heb 9:11the most.
Mark 1:24 Luke 1:35 Acts 3:14 Heb 7:26 Rev 3:7 25 and understand.
Dan 9:23 Matt 13:23 Matt 24:15 Mark 13:14 Acts 8:30from.
Ezra 4:24 Ezra 6:1 -
Ezra 6:15 Ezra 7:1 Ezra 7:8 Ezra 7:11 -
Ezra 7:26 Neh 2:1 -
Neh 2:8 Neh 3:1restore and to build Jerusalem. or, build again Jerusalem:as.
2Sam 15:25 Ps 71:10the Messiah.
John 1:41 John 4:25the Prince.
Dan 8:11 Dan 8:25 Isa 9:6 Isa 55:4 Mic 5:2 Acts 3:15 Acts 5:31 Rev 1:5 Rev 19:16seven weeks. The seventy weeks are here divided into three periods.
1. Seven weeks, or 49 years, for the restoration of Jerusalem.
2. Sixty-two weeks, or 434 years, from that time to the announcement of the Messiah by John the Baptist.
3. One week, or seven years, for the ministry of John and of CHRIST himself to the crucifixion.
be built again. Heb. return and be builded. wall. or,breach, or, ditch. even.
Neh 4:8 Neh 4:16 -
Neh 4:18 Eph 5:16troublous times. Heb. strait of times.
Neh 6:15 26 Messiah.
Ps 22:15 Isa 53:8 Mark 9:12 Luke 24:26 Luke 24:46 John 11:51 John 11:52 John 12:32 -
John 12:34 2Cor 5:21 Gal 3:13 1Pet 2:21 1Pet 2:24 1Pet 3:18but not. or, and shall have nothing.
John 14:30and the people, etc. or, and (the Jews) shall be no more hispeople.
Dan 11:17 Hos 1:9or, and the Prince's (Messiah's, ver. 25,) future people. The Romans, who under Titus, after the expiration of the 70 weeks, destroyed the temple and the city, and dispersed the Jews.
the prince.
Matt 22:2 Matt 22:7 Matt 23:38 Matt 24:2 Mark 13:2 Luke 19:43 Luke 19:44 Luke 21:6 Luke 21:24 Acts 6:13 Acts 6:14and the end.
Matt 24:6 -
Matt 24:14 Mark 13:7with.
Dan 11:10 Isa 8:7 Jer 46:7 Amos 8:8 Amos 9:5 Nah 1:8desolations are determined. or, it shall be cut off bydesolations
27 confirm.
Isa 42:6 Isa 53:11 Isa 55:3 Jer 31:31 -
Jer 31:34 Jer 32:40 -
Jer 32:42 Ezek 16:60 -
Ezek 16:63 Matt 26:28 Rom 5:15 Rom 5:19 Rom 15:8 Rom 15:9 Gal 3:13 -
Gal 3:17 Heb 6:13 -
Heb 6:18 Heb 8:8 -
Heb 8:13 Heb 9:15 -
Heb 9:20 Heb 9:28 Heb 10:16 -
Heb 10:18 Heb 13:20 Heb 13:21the covenant. or, a covenant. cause.
Matt 27:51 Heb 10:4 -
Heb 10:22for the overspreading of abominations he shall make itdesolate. or, upon the battlements shall be the idols of the desolator.
Dan 8:13 Dan 11:36 Dan 12:11 Isa 10:22 Isa 10:23 Isa 28:22 Matt 24:15 Mark 13:14 Luke 21:20 Luke 21:24 Rom 11:26that determined.
Lev 26:14 -
Lev 26:46 Deut 4:26 -
Deut 4:28 Deut 28:15 -
Deut 28:68 Deut 29:18 -
Deut 29:29 Deut 30:17 Deut 30:18 Deut 31:28 Deut 31:29 Deut 32:19 -
Deut 32:44 Ps 69:22 -
Ps 69:28 1Thess 2:15 1Thess 2:16upon the desolate. or, upon the desolator.