Daniel 9:24
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| Overview - Daniel 9 | |
| 1 | Daniel, considering the time of the captivity, |
| 3 | makes confession of sins, |
| 16 | and prays for the restoration of Jerusalem. |
| 20 | Gabriel informs him of the seventy weeks. |
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Daniel 9:24 (King James Version)
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
- 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 7:9-26 )will bring us to the month of Nisan of the 4,746th year of the same period, or AD. 33, ; the very month and year in which our Lord suffered, and completed the work of our salvation.
- Leviticus 25:8 ; Numbers 14:34 ; Ezekiel 4:6
- finish
- or, restrain.
- Matthew 1:21 ; 1 John 3:8
- and to
- Lamentations 4:22 ; Colossians 2:14 ; Hebrews 9:26 ; 10:14
- make an end of
- or, seal up.
- Ezekiel 28:12
- to make
- Leviticus 8:15 ; 2 Chronicles 29:24 ; Isaiah 53:10 ; Romans 5:10 ; 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 ; Colossians 1:20
- Hebrews 2:17
- to bring
- Isaiah 51:6 Isaiah 51:8 ; 53:11 56:1 Jeremiah 23:5 Jeremiah 23:6 ; Romans 3:21 Romans 3:22 ; 1 Corinthians 1:30 ; 2 Corinthians 5:21
- Philippians 3:9 ; Hebrews 9:12-14 ; 2 Peter 1:1 ; Revelation 14:6
- seal up
- Matthew 11:13 ; Luke 24:25-27 Luke 24:44 Luke 24:45 ; John 19:28-30
- prophecy
- Hebrew prophet.
- Acts 3:22
- and to anoint
- Psalms 2:6 ; 45:7 Isaiah 61:1 ; Luke 4:18-21 ; John 1:41 ; 3:34 Hebrews 1:8 Hebrews 1:9 ; 9:11
- the most
- Mark 1:24 ; Luke 1:35 ; Acts 3:14 ; Hebrews 7:26 ; Revelation 3:7