Daniel 9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 9:23

At the beginning of thy supplications - We are not informed at what time Daniel began to pray, but as remarked above, it is most natural to suppose that he devoted the day to prayer, and had commenced these solemn acts of devotion in the morning.The commandment came forth - Margin, “word.” That is, the word of God. This evidently means, in heaven; and the idea is, that as soon as he began to pray a command was issued from God to Gabriel that he should visit Daniel, and convey to him the... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks are determined - Here commences the celebrated prophecy of the seventy weeks - a portion of Scripture Which has excited as much attention, and led to as great a variety of interpretation, as perhaps any other. Of this passage, Professor Stuart (“Hints on the Interpretation of Prophecy,” p. 104) remarks, “It would require a volume of considerable magnitude even to give a history of the ever-varying and contradictory opinions of critics respecting this “locus vexatissimus; “and... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 9:25

Know, therefore, and understand - Hengstenberg renders this, “and thou wilt know and understand;” and supposes that the design of Gabriel is to awaken the attention and interest of Daniel by the assurance that, if he would give attention, he would understand the subject by the explanation which he was about to give. So also Theodotion renders it in the future tense. The Hebrew is in the future tense, and would probably convey the idea that he might, or would know and understand the matter. So... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 9:26

And after threescore and two weeks - After the completion of the last period of four hundred and thirty-four years. The angel had shown in the previous verse what would be the characteristic of the first period of “seven weeks” - that during that time the wall and the street would be built in circumstances of general distress and anxiety, and he now proceeds to state what would occur in relation to the remaining sixty-two weeks. The particular thing which would characterize that period would... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 9:27

And he shall confirm the covenant - literally, “he shall make strong” - והגביר vehı̂gebı̂yr. The idea is that of giving strength, or stability; of making firm and sure. The Hebrew word here evidently refers to the “covenant” which God is said to establish with his people - so often referred to in the Scriptures as expressing the relation between Him and them, and hence used, in general, to denote the laws and institutions of the true religion - the laws which God has made for his church; his... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 9

A.M. 3466. B.C. 538. This chapter contains, (1,) A most affecting and ardent prayer of Daniel for the restoration of Israel, on a near view of the expiration of the seventy years allotted for Judah’s captivity, Daniel 9:1-19 . (2,) The answer sent him by an angel, implying the restoration of the Jews to their own land, and containing one of the clearest prophecies of the Messiah to be found in all the Old Testament; of the time and design of his appearing, and of the dreadful and... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 9:1-2

Daniel 9:1-2. In the first year of Darius That is, immediately after the overthrow of the kingdom of Babylon, which was the year of the Jews’ deliverance from captivity. This Darius was not Darius the Persian, under whom the temple was built, as some have asserted, to invalidate the credibility of this book; but Darius the Mede, who lived in the time of Daniel, and is called Cyaxares, the son of Astyages, by the heathen historians: see note on chap. Daniel 6:1. In the first year of his... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 9:3

Daniel 9:3. I set my face unto the Lord God This expression does not merely mean, that he directed his face to the place where the temple had stood: it signifies also his resolution to apply to God with the utmost seriousness, fervency, importunity, and perseverance, for the accomplishment of his promises respecting the restoration of his people. It denotes, says Henry, “the intenseness of his mind in this prayer, the fixedness of his thoughts, the firmness of his faith, and the fervour of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 9:4

Daniel 9:4. I prayed unto the Lord my God Daniel could approach God with confidence, knowing him to be his God in covenant, his reconciled God and Father. Observe, reader, we must know God to be our God, if we would pray in faith, and with success, when we apply to him for any blessing. And made my confession Both acknowledging his justice and holiness, and my own and my people’s iniquity. The more pious men are, and the better they are acquainted with themselves and God, the greater is... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 9:5

Daniel 9:5. We have sinned, and have committed iniquity Daniel uses the same confession here that is prescribed, in Solomon’s consecration prayer, to be used by the Jews in the land of their captivity; with a promise subjoined, of a favourable answer that God would make to their supplications presented to him on such an occasion: see the margin. And being one of the Jewish nation, he speaks of their sins as his own; and, though certainly a most holy man, puts himself among the greatest... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 9:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 9:24

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 9:25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 9:26

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 9:27

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 9:1-2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 9:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 9:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 9:5

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