Daniel 9:24-27

24 “Seventy ‘sevens’^[a] are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish^[b] transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.^[c]

25 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One,^[d] the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.

26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.^[e] The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.

27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’^[f] In the middle of the ‘seven’^[g] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple^[h] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.^[i] ”^[j]

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. S Isaiah 1:26
• 2. S Isaiah 53:10
• 3. S Isaiah 56:1; Hebrews 9:12
• 4. S Ezra 4:24; S Ezra 6:15
• 5. Matthew 1:17; John 4:25
• 6. S 1 Samuel 13:14
• 7. S Ezra 3:3
• 8. S Isaiah 53:8; Matthew 16:21
• 9. Isaiah 28:2; Daniel 11:10; Nahum 1:8
• 10. S Psalms 46:8
• 11. Isaiah 61:1; S Ezekiel 4:5-6; Haggai 2:23; Zechariah 4:14
• 12. S Isaiah 10:22

Footnotes

• [a] Or "‘weeks’" ; also in verses 25 and 26
• [b] Or "restrain"
• [c] Or "the most holy One"
• [d] Or "an anointed one" ; also in verse 26
• [e] Or "death and will have no one" ; or "death, but not for himself"
• [f] Or "‘week’"
• [g] Or "‘week’"
• [h] Septuagint and Theodotion; Hebrew "wing"
• [i] Or "it"
• [j] Or "And one who causes desolation will come upon the wing of the abominable temple, until the end that is decreed is poured out on the desolated city"