27 He will make a firm covenant[a]
with many for one week,[b]
but in the middle of the week
he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering.
And the abomination of desolation(A)
will be on a wing(B) of the temple[c][d]
until the decreed destruction(C)
is poured out on the desolator.”

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:27 Or will enforce a covenant
  2. Daniel 9:27 = 7 years
  3. Daniel 9:27 LXX; MT reads of abominations
  4. Daniel 9:27 Or And the desolator will be on the wing of abominations, or And the desolator will come on the wings of monsters (or of horror); Hb obscure

27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

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11 From the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation(A) is set up,(B) there will be 1,290 days.

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11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

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The Great Tribulation

14 “When you see the abomination that causes desolation(A)[a] standing where it should not” (let the reader understand[b]), “then those in Judea(B) must flee to the mountains!

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 13:14 Dn 9:27
  2. Mark 13:14 These are, most likely, Mark’s words to his readers.

14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judæa flee to the mountains:

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The Two Witnesses

11 Then I was given a measuring reed(A) like a rod,[a] with these words: “Go[b] and measure God’s sanctuary and the altar, and count those who worship there. But exclude the courtyard outside the sanctuary. Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations,[c] and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 11:1 Other mss add and the angel stood up
  2. Revelation 11:1 Lit Arise
  3. Revelation 11:2 Or Gentiles

11 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

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