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Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 10:1-21

Daniel 10. Introduction to the Final Vision.— The last three chapters of Daniel form a unity and describe the final vision. Daniel 10 is introductory. A “ shining” being appears to Daniel near the “ great river” and tells him that he has been sent in answer to his prayers. The guardian angel of Persia had tried to intercept him, but Michael the protector of Israel had come to his assistance. Daniel 10:1 . third year of Cyrus: 535 B.C, the latest date in the Book. Daniel 10:4 . the great... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 10:2

There are several causes of Daniel’s mourning. 1. Because the Jews had liberty to go out of captivity, yet many of them staid still in Babylon. 2. Because when they were building the temple, walls, and city they were greatly hindered and molested, Ezra 4:4. 3. Because he foresaw the many calamities of the Jews that would befall them for their sins, especially in destroying the Messiah, and rejecting his gospel. Three full weeks; he fasted and mourned all that time, both to declare his deep... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Daniel 10:1-21

HOMILETICSSECT. XXXVII.—ANGEL MINISTRIES (Chap. Daniel 10:1-21)In this and the two following chapters we have another of Daniel’s remarkable visions. It is both the last and the longest recorded, occupying, as it does, nearly three whole chapters of the book. It was vouchsafed to Daniel as a man greatly beloved, which he is here again declared twice over to be. It was given him in the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, B.C. 531, Daniel now approaching the ninetieth year of his age. The prophet... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Daniel 10:1-21

Chapter 10Now in chapter 10,In the third year of Cyrus the king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose [Babylonian or Chaldean] name was Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. In those days I Daniel was mourning for three full weeks. And I ate no pastries, neither meat nor wine, neither did I anoint myself at all, until the three whole weeks were fulfilled ( Daniel 10:1-3 ).So, again, a... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 10:1-21

Daniel 10:1 . In the third year of Cyrus, reckoned from the time that he occupied Babylon, in which he governed as viceroy for his uncle Darius. The first year of Cyrus therefore, mentioned in Daniel 1:1, must be reckoned from the time that he ascended the Persian throne. Daniel 10:5-6 . Behold, a certain man, clothed in linen, as Ezekiel had described him in Ezekiel 9:2. This was the dress of the priest, as appears from Exodus 28:42. Leviticus 6:10. He had a zone of the gold of Uphaz... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Daniel 10:1-21

Daniel 10:1-21In the third year of Cyrus.The Vision on the Banks of the HiddekelsThe law of gradual development seems to pervade the government of God, and may be treated alike in the material and spiritual departments of his administration. The revelation which God has given to men has grown into its completeness. The primal promise to our common parents in paradise, was the first faint ray that emanated from the common sun of righteousness; but as the morning of the race wore on, that... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 10:2

Dan 10:2 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. Ver. 2. In those days I Daniel was mourning. ] Though a great man still, and in great account, yet not now so great at court as to hinder and defeat the malicious designs of Cambyses’s counsellors; who, being bribed by the Jews’ adversaries, put a stop to the temple work at Jerusalem. Ezr 4:1-4 This disaster cast good Daniel into his dumps, so that he fasted three full weeks, a tanto et tali, sed non a toto, and longer might, had... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Daniel 10:2

I Daniel: Ezra 9:4, Ezra 9:5, Nehemiah 1:4, Psalms 42:9, Psalms 43:2, Psalms 137:1-Deuteronomy :, Isaiah 66:10, Jeremiah 9:1, Matthew 9:15, Romans 9:2, James 4:9, Revelation 11:5 full weeks: Heb. weeks of days, Daniel 9:24-: Reciprocal: Leviticus 23:27 - afflict Ecclesiastes 7:3 - is better Isaiah 58:3 - in Daniel 8:1 - me Daniel Daniel 9:3 - with Daniel 9:20 - whiles Daniel 10:12 - from Matthew 6:17 - anoint read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Daniel 10:2

In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.Was mourning — Because he foresaw the many calamities that would befall the Jews for their sins, especially for destroying the Messiah, and rejecting his gospel. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 10:2-4

2-4. Daniel observes another period of mourning over the sins of the people, the desolation of Jerusalem, and his own ignorance of the future (see Daniel 10:14; compare Daniel 9:3, etc.), and after three weeks, in which he had eaten no “dainties” and observed the usual external marks of one in great sorrow or of one who fasted before the Lord, hoping for some special divine token of favor (compare 2 Samuel 14:2), finally, on the 29th of Abib (Nisan), as he was on the bank of the great river... read more

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