Daniel 9:6

6 Und wir haben nicht auf deine Knechte, die Propheten, gehört, welche in deinem Namen zu unseren Königen, unseren Fürsten und unseren Vätern und zu allem Volke des Landes geredet haben.

Daniel 9:6 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 9:6

Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets
To their explanations of the laws and judgments of God; to their admonitions, reproofs, and counsels; these they did not attentively listen to, nor give credit to them, nor yield obedience to them; but despised and rejected them, though they were the true prophets and servants of the Lord; such as Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and others: which spake in thy name;
they came by the authority of God, being sent by him; they delivered their message in his name, being his ambassadors; and which as it was an honour done to this people to have such men sent unto them, so it was an aggravation of their sin that they showed no respect to them; since their words were not their own, but the Lord's, which they spoke to all sorts of persons: to our kings;
one after another, as to Ahaz, Manasseh, Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, and Zedekiah; kings of the house of David, and over the land of Judah: our princes;
princes of the blood, nobles, and courtiers: and our fathers;
meaning not only their immediate ancestors, but their subordinate rulers, civil magistrates, judges or elders of the people, as Jacchiades interprets it: and to all the people of the land:
of Judea; the common people, as distinguished from persons of rank and figure before expressed. These several persons are named, partly to observe how faithful the prophets were in delivering their message to all sorts of persons, high and low, not fearing the faces of any; and partly to show that none could plead ignorance, or excuse themselves with that, since all had had sufficient warning and instruction: as also to observe, that the sin of rejecting the true prophets of the Lord was universal among them, all were guilty of it.

Daniel 9:6 In-Context

4 Und ich betete zu Jehova, meinem Gott, und ich bekannte und sprach: Ach, Herr! Du großer und furchtbarer Gott, der den Bund und die Güte denen bewahrt, die ihn lieben und seine Gebote halten!

5 Wir haben gesündigt und verkehrt und gesetzlos gehandelt, und wir haben uns empört und sind von deinen Geboten und von deinen Rechten abgewichen.

6 Und wir haben nicht auf deine Knechte, die Propheten, gehört, welche in deinem Namen zu unseren Königen, unseren Fürsten und unseren Vätern und zu allem Volke des Landes geredet haben.

7 Dein, o Herr, ist die Gerechtigkeit, unser aber die Beschämung des Angesichts, wie es an diesem Tage ist: der Männer von Juda und der Bewohner von Jerusalem, und des ganzen Israel, der Nahen und der Fernen, in allen Ländern, wohin du sie vertrieben hast wegen ihrer Treulosigkeit, die sie gegen dich begangen haben.

8 Jehova! Unser ist die Beschämung des Angesichts, unserer Könige, unserer Fürsten und unserer Väter, weil wir gegen dich gesündigt haben.