Daniel 9:24-27

Seventy Weeks and the Messiah

24 "Seventy ¹weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to ²make atonement for iniquity, to bring in ³everlasting 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 ⁴decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until ⁵Messiah the ⁶Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two * weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

26 "Then after the sixty-two * weeks the Messiah will be ⁷cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will ⁸destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a ⁹flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

27 "And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of ¹⁰abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a ¹¹complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate."

Daniel 9:24-27 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. Leviticus 25:8; Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:5, 6
• 2. 2 Chronicles 29:24; Isaiah 53:10; Romans 5:10
• 3. Isaiah 51:6, 8; Isaiah 56:1; Jeremiah 23:5, 6; Romans 3:21, 22
• 4. Ezra 4:24; Ezra 6:1-15; Nehemiah 2:1-8; Nehemiah 3:1
• 5. John 1:41; John 4:25
• 6. Isaiah 9:6; Daniel 8:11, 25
• 7. Isaiah 53:8; Mark 9:12; Luke 24:26
• 8. Matthew 24:2; Mark 13:2; Luke 19:43, 44
• 9. Nahum 1:8
• 10. Daniel 11:31; Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14; Luke 21:20
• 11. Isaiah 10:23; Isaiah 28:22

Footnotes

• [a] Or "units of seven," and so throughout the ch
• [b] Or "restrain"
• [c] Another reading is "seal up sins"
• [d] Lit "prophet"
• [e] Lit "word"
• [f] Or "an anointed one"
• [g] Or "streets"
• [h] Or "anointed one"
• [i] Or "no one"
• [j] Or "his"
• [k] Or "war will be decreed for desolations"
• [l] Or "detestable things"
• [m] Or "causes horror"
• [n] Or "causes horror"