Daniel 9:15-25

15 "And now, O Lord our God, who have ¹brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and have ²made a name for Yourself, as it is this day -we have sinned, we have been wicked.

16 "O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous acts, let now Your ³anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your ⁴holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a ⁵reproach to all those around us.

17 "So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, ⁶let Your face shine on Your ⁷desolate sanctuary.

18 "O my God, ⁸incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and ⁹see our desolations and the city which is ¹⁰called by Your name; for we are not ¹¹presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion.

19 "O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, ¹²do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name."

Gabriel Brings an Answer

20 Now while I was ¹³speaking and praying, and ¹⁴confessing 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 ¹⁵Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the ¹⁶evening offering.

22 He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, "O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with ¹⁷understanding.

23 "At the ¹⁸beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are ¹⁹highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain ²⁰understanding of the vision.

Seventy Weeks and the Messiah

24 "Seventy ²¹weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to ²²make atonement for iniquity, to bring in ²³everlasting 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 ²⁴decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until ²⁵Messiah the ²⁶Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two * weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

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Daniel 9:15-25 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 26

1. Deuteronomy 5:15
2. Nehemiah 9:10; Jeremiah 32:20
3. Jeremiah 32:31, 32
4. Psalms 87:1-3; Daniel 9:20; Joel 3:17; Zechariah 8:3
5. Ezekiel 5:14
6. Numbers 6:24-26; Ps 80:3, 7, 19
7. Lamentations 5:18
8. Isaiah 37:17
9. Psalms 80:14
10. Jeremiah 7:10-12
11. Jeremiah 36:7
12. Psalms 44:23; Psalms 74:10, 11
13. Psalms 145:18; Isaiah 58:9; Daniel 9:3; Daniel 10:12
14. Isaiah 6:5
15. Daniel 8:16; Luke 1:19, 26
16. Exodus 29:39; 1 Kings 18:36; Ezra 9:4
17. Daniel 8:16; Daniel 10:21; Zechariah 1:9
18. Daniel 10:12
19. Daniel 10:11, 19
20. Matthew 24:15
21. Leviticus 25:8; Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:5, 6
22. 2 Chronicles 29:24; Isaiah 53:10; Romans 5:10
23. Isaiah 51:6, 8; Isaiah 56:1; Jeremiah 23:5, 6; Romans 3:21, 22
24. Ezra 4:24; Ezra 6:1-15; Nehemiah 2:1-8; Nehemiah 3:1
25. John 1:41; John 4:25
26. Isaiah 9:6; Daniel 8:11, 25

Footnotes 17

[a]. Lit "righteousnesses"
[b]. Lit "the sake of the Lord"
[c]. Lit "causing to fall"
[d]. Lit "our righteousnesses"
[e]. Lit "causing to fall"
[f]. Lit "at the beginning"
[g]. Lit "was reaching;" or "touching"
[h]. Lit "wearied with weariness"
[i]. Lit "word went out"
[j]. Lit "desirable;" or "precious"
[k]. Or "units of seven," and so throughout the ch
[l]. Or "restrain"
[m]. Another reading is "seal up sins"
[n]. Lit "prophet"
[o]. Lit "word"
[p]. Or "an anointed one"
[q]. Or "streets"