Daniel 9:20-27
Evangelical Heritage Version
Gabriel Explains Jerusalem’s Future
20 While I was still speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, I was casting my prayer for grace, concerning the holy mountain of my God, before the Lord my God, 21 while I was still speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the first vision, touched me. I was completely exhausted.[a] It was about the time of the evening sacrifice. 22 He instructed me, “Daniel, now I have come to give you insight with understanding. 23 At the beginning of your plea for grace, a word went out, and I came to declare it to you, because you are very treasured. So pay attention to the word and understand the vision.”
The Vision of Seventy Sevens
24 Seventy sevens[b] are determined concerning your people and your holy city:
to end rebellion,
to finish sin,
and to atone for guilt,
to bring everlasting righteousness,
to seal up prophetic vision,
and to anoint a most holy one.[c]
25 You should know and have insight. From the going out of a word to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one,[d] a ruler, comes, there will be seven sevens and sixty-two sevens.[e] Jerusalem will be rebuilt with public squares and a moat, but during troubled times.
26 Then after the sixty-two sevens, the anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. Both the city and the holy place will be destroyed by the people of a ruler who is coming,[f] and its end will be with a flood. There will be war until the end, and desolations have been decreed.
27 He[g] will confirm a covenant for the many during one seven. In the middle of the seven, he will cause sacrifice and offering to cease.
On the wing of abominations is one who causes desolation, until the decreed end is poured out on the one who causes desolation.
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- Daniel 9:21 Or he came to me in swift flight
- Daniel 9:24 A form of the word seven is used, but it is not the term Daniel uses for an ordinary week of seven days. The “weeks” in this prophecy probably represent periods of seven years.
- Daniel 9:24 The Hebrew phrase is not the usual expression for the Holy of Holies. Here it may refer to a holy person, the Messiah.
- Daniel 9:25 The Hebrew word used here is the source of the English term Messiah and the Greek term Christ.
- Daniel 9:25 The seven sevens extend from Daniel to Nehemiah and the sixty-two sevens from Nehemiah to Christ.
- Daniel 9:26 Titus, the Roman general who destroyed Jerusalem in 70 ad
- Daniel 9:27 The Messiah
Daniel 9:20-27
Lexham English Bible
Gabriel’s Announcement and Presentation of the Seventy Sets of Seven
20 Now I was still speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before[a] Yahweh my God, on behalf of the holy mountain of my God.[b] 21 And I was still speaking in prayer, and the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously,[c] in my weariness touched me[d] at the time of the evening offering. 22 And he instructed me and he spoke with me and he said, “Daniel I have now come out[e] to teach you understanding. 23 At the beginning of your pleas for mercy, a word went out, and now I have come to declare[f] it, for you are highly esteemed, and so consider the word and understand the vision.
The Seventy Sets of Seven Detailed
24 “Seventy weeks is decreed for your people and for your holy city,[g] to put an end to the transgression and to seal up sin[h] and to make atonement for guilt and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal vision and prophet and to anoint the most holy place.[i] 25 And you must know and you must understand[j] that from the time of the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem until an anointed[k] one—a leader—will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;[l] it will be restored and will be built with streets and a moat, but in a time of oppression.[m]
26 “And after the sixty and two weeks an anointed one[n] shall be cut off, and he shall have nothing,[o] and the people of the coming leader will destroy the city and the sanctuary,[p] and its end will be with the flood and on to the end there shall be war; these desolations are determined. 27 And he will make a strong covenant with the many for one week, but in half of the week he will let cease sacrifice and offering and in its place[q] a desolating abomination comes even until the determined complete destruction[r] is poured out on the desolator.”
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- Daniel 9:20 Literally “to the face of”
- Daniel 9:20 Literally “the mountain of the holiness of my God”
- Daniel 9:21 Literally “in the beginning”
- Daniel 9:21 Literally “my being wearied, touching me”
- Daniel 9:22 Or “forth”
- Daniel 9:23 Or “deliver”
- Daniel 9:24 Literally “for the city of your holiness”
- Daniel 9:24 Or “to make an end to sin”
- Daniel 9:24 Literally “the holy place of holy places”
- Daniel 9:25 Or “so you are to know and discern” (NASB), or “know then and understand” (e.g. NEB)
- Daniel 9:25 Or “messiah”
- Daniel 9:25 Literally “weeks seven and weeks sixty and two”
- Daniel 9:25 Literally “in distress/oppression of the times/time”
- Daniel 9:26 Or “messiah”
- Daniel 9:26 Literally “there is not for him”
- Daniel 9:26 Or “holy place”
- Daniel 9:27 Literally “and on a wing of”
- Daniel 9:27 Literally “a complete destruction and being determined”
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