Daniel 9:22-27

22 ¹He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, "O Daniel, I have now come out to give you ²insight and understanding.

23 ³At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, ⁴and I have come to tell it to you, for ⁵you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word ⁶and understand the vision.

The Seventy Weeks

24 ⁷"Seventy weeks^[a] are decreed about your people and ⁸your holy city, to finish ⁹the transgression, to put an end to sin, ¹⁰and to atone for iniquity, ¹¹to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and ¹²to anoint a most holy place.^[b]

25 ¹³Know therefore and understand that ¹⁴from the going out of the word to restore and ¹⁵build Jerusalem to the coming of an ¹⁶anointed one, a ¹⁷prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, ¹⁸but in a troubled time.

26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall ¹⁹be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come ²⁰shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. ²¹Its^[c] end shall come with a flood, ²²and to the end there shall be war. ²³Desolations are decreed.

27 And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week,^[d] and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. ²⁴And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until ²⁵the decreed end is poured out on the desolator."

Daniel 9:22-27 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.

Cross References

• 1. [Daniel 8:16]
• 2. [Daniel 1:4, 17]
• 3. [ver. 20]
• 4. [Daniel 10:12, 14]
• 5. Daniel 10:11, 19
• 6. [Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14]
• 7. [Ezekiel 4:6]
• 8. Nehemiah 11:1
• 9. Daniel 8:13
• 10. [Psalms 78:38; Hebrews 2:17]; See Jeremiah 31:34
• 11. Romans 3:25, 26; See Jeremiah 23:5, 6
• 12. [Psalms 45:7; Isaiah 61:1; Acts 4:26, 27]
• 13. [ver. 23]
• 14. [2 Chronicles 36:23; Ezra 1:3; Ezra 4:24; Ezra 6:15; Neh. Ezra 6:15]
• 15. [Psalms 51:18]
• 16. John 1:41
• 17. Isaiah 55:4
• 18. See Neh. 4:7, 8, 16-18
• 19. Isaiah 53:8; [Mark 9:12; Luke 24:26]
• 20. [Matthew 24:2; Mark 13:2; Luke 19:43, 44]
• 21. Nahum 1:8; [Daniel 11:10, 22, 26, 40]
• 22. Matthew 24:6, 14
• 23. ver. 18; See ver. 27
• 24. Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14; [Luke 21:20]
• 25. Isaiah 10:23

Footnotes

• [a]. Or sevens; also twice in verse 25 and once in verse 26
• [b]. Or thing, or one
• [c]. Or His
• [d]. Or seven; twice in this verse