Daniel 9:25-26

25 "So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a ¹decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until ²Messiah the ³Prince 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 ⁴cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will ⁵destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a ⁶flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

Daniel 9:25-26 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. Ezra 4:24; Ezra 6:1-15; Nehemiah 2:1-8; Nehemiah 3:1
• 2. John 1:41; John 4:25
• 3. Isaiah 9:6; Daniel 8:11, 25
• 4. Isaiah 53:8; Mark 9:12; Luke 24:26
• 5. Matthew 24:2; Mark 13:2; Luke 19:43, 44
• 6. Nahum 1:8

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "word"
• [b] Or "an anointed one"
• [c] Or "streets"
• [d] Or "anointed one"
• [e] Or "no one"
• [f] Or "his"
• [g] Or "war will be decreed for desolations"