Daniel 9:25-27

25 Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince^[a] will be seven weeks and 62 weeks.^[b] It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat, but in difficult times.

26 After those 62 weeks^[c] the Messiah will be cut off^[d] and will have nothing. The people of the coming prince will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The^[e] end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be^[f] war; desolations are decreed.

27 He will make a firm covenant^[g] with many for one week,^[h] but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering. And the abomination of desolation will be on a wing^[i] of the temple^[j][k] until the decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator."

Daniel 9:25-27 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.

Footnotes

• [a] Or until an anointed one, a prince
• [b] 49 years and 434 years
• [c] 434 years
• [d] Isa 53:8
• [e] Lit Its, or His
• [f] Or end of a
• [g] Or will enforce a covenant
• [h] 7 years
• [i] Isa 7:7-8; Mt 4:5
• [j] LXX; MT reads of abominations
• [k] Or And the desolator will be on the wing of abominations, or And the desolator will come on the wings of monsters (or of horror); Hb obscure