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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 9
Daniel fasts, confesses, and prays for all Israel—Gabriel reveals
time of the coming of the Messiah who shall make reconciliation for
iniquity—Messiah shall be cut off.
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1 IN the first year of aDarius the son
of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of
the Chaldeans;
2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood
by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to
Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish aseventy
yearsa in the
bdesolations of Jerusalem.
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2a seventy years The fact that
Daniel is considering Jerusalem the city is assured as Jeremiah's prophecy
was specific to the return of the 'Jews' to Jerusalem in 70 years. Yet we
run into the same concept with Zion and the City of Zion. True Daniel speaks
of Jerusalem as being the mountain of the Lord, and it is true considering
that Jerusalem was and would be where the House of the Lord would be raised
and that the Holy City of the Lord is so named Jerusalem specific to the
City of Jerusalem and more generally to all who are the people of the Lord,
just as Zion may be a specific place and/or a reference to the community of
the Lord wherever it is to be found.
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3 ¶ And I set my face unto the Lord God, to
aseek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and
bsackcloth, and ashes:
4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my
aconfession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God,
bkeeping the covenant and cmercy to them
that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
5 We have asinned, and have
committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by
departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
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6 Neither have we ahearkened unto thy
servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and
our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7 O Lord, arighteousness
belongeth unto thee, but unto us bconfusion of
faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far
off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of
their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
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9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and
aforgivenesses, though we have brebelled
against him;
10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our
God, to awalk in his laws, which he set before us by his
servants the prophets.
11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by
departing, that they might not aobey thy voice; therefore
the bcurse is poured upon us, and the oath that is
written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned
against him.
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12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake
against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a
great aevil: for under the whole heaven hath not been
bdone as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
13 As it is written in the
alaw of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we
not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our
iniquities, and understand thy truth.
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14 Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the
aevil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God
is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we
bobeyed not his voice.
15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
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16 ¶ O Lord, according to all thy
arighteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy
fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy
bmountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of
our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a
creproach to all that are about us.
17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy
servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to
ashine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's
sake.
18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
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20 ¶ And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even
the man
aGabriela, whom I had
seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly,
btouched me about the time of the
cevening oblation.
22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and
said, O aDaniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and
understanding.
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21a the man Gabriel Now
whether Daniel understood that Noah was Gabriel or not, Daniel does clearly
reference the messenger Gabriel as being 'a man' and not 'an angel'. This
destinction, though not absolute seems to be that Daniel recognized that
Gabriel was a man who had lived of this earth and now had returned to deliver
his message from God to Daniel at this time. Of course 'Gabriel' was not yet
resurrected at this time, and Jehovah as Jesus was the first to be so
resurrected. So Gabriel, who is Noah, had to have been either a 'translated
being' or to have just appeared with his spirit body, which we know and
understand to be the same form and image of man.
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23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and
upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins,
and to make areconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in
everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to
anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from
the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto
the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two
weeks: the street shall be built again, and the awall, even
in troublous times.
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26 And after threescore and two weeks shall
aMessiah be cut offa,
but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall
bdestroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof
shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are
determined.
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
aabominations he shall make it
bdesolate, even until the cconsummation,
and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
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26a after threescore and two weeks shall
Messiah be cut off Now as to the measurement of 62 weeks one is
left to ponder from what event to the Lord's death is referenced, but as to
the event of the Messiah being cut off one must consider that it could only
refer to when Jesus was crucified, being 'cut off' from the living. And after
his death Jerusalem and the temple would be destoryed as by the 'flood' of
the Romans' destorying the city and scattering the Jews with great
desolations.
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