Daniel 10:2

10:2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three whole weeks. ¹ 

Daniel 9:24

9:24 “Seventy weeks ²  have been determined

concerning your people and your holy city

to put an end to ³  rebellion,

to bring sin ⁴  to completion, ⁵ 

to atone for iniquity,

to bring in perpetual ⁶  righteousness,

to seal up ⁷  the prophetic vision, ⁸ 

and to anoint a most holy place. ⁹ 

Daniel 10:3

10:3 I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips, ¹⁰  nor did I anoint myself with oil ¹¹  until the end of those three weeks.

Daniel 9:2

9:2 in the first year of his reign ¹²  I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books ¹³  that, according to the word of the LORD ¹⁴  disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem ¹⁵  were seventy in number.

Daniel 9:25

9:25 So know and understand:

From the issuing of the command ¹⁶  to restore and rebuild

Jerusalem ¹⁷  until an anointed one, a prince arrives, ¹⁸ 

there will be a period of seven weeks ¹⁹  and sixty-two weeks.

It will again be built, ²⁰  with plaza and moat,

but in distressful times.

¹ tn Heb “three weeks of days.” The inclusion of “days” here and in v. 3 is perhaps intended to call attention to the fact that these weeks are very different in nature from those of chap. 9, which are “weeks of years.”

² tn Heb “sevens.” Elsewhere the term is used of a literal week (a period of seven days), cf. Gen 29:27-28; Exod 34:22; Lev 12:5; Num 28:26; Deut 16:9-10; 2 Chr 8:13; Jer 5:24; Dan 10:2-3. Gabriel unfolds the future as if it were a calendar of successive weeks. Most understand the reference here as periods of seventy “sevens” of years, or a total of 490 years.

³ tc Or “to finish.” The present translation reads the Qere (from the root תָּמַם, tamam) with many witnesses. The Kethib has “to seal up” (from the root הָתַם, hatam), a confusion with a reference later in the verse to sealing up the vision.

⁴ tc The present translation reads the Qere (singular), rather than the Kethib (plural).

⁵ tn The Hebrew phrase לְכַלֵּא (lÿkhalle’) is apparently an alternative (metaplastic) spelling of the root כָּלָה (kalah, “to complete, finish”), rather than a form of כָּלָא (kala’, “to shut up, restrain”), as has sometimes been supposed.

⁶ tn Or “everlasting.”

⁷ sn The act of sealing in the OT is a sign of authentication. Cf. 1 Kgs 21:8; Jer 32:10, 11, 44.

⁸ tn Heb “vision and prophecy.” The expression is a hendiadys.

⁹ tn Or “the most holy place” (NASB, NLT); or “a most holy one”; or “the most holy one,” though the expression is used of places or objects elsewhere, not people.

³ tn Heb “mouth.”

⁴ sn Anointing oneself with oil (usually olive oil) was a common OT practice due to the severity of the Middle Eastern sun (cf. Ps 121:6). It was also associated with rejoicing (e.g., Prov 27:9) and was therefore usually not practiced during a period of mourning.

⁴ tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.

⁵ tn The Hebrew text has “books”; the word “sacred” has been added in the translation to clarify that it is Scriptures that are referred to.

⁶ sn The tetragrammaton (the four Hebrew letters which constitute the divine Name, YHWH) appears eight times in this chapter, and nowhere else in the book of Daniel.

⁷ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁵ tn Or “decree” (NASB, NIV); or “word” (NAB, NRSV).

⁶ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁷ tn The word “arrives” is added in the translation for clarification.

⁸ tn Heb “sevens” (also later in this line and in v. 26).

⁹ tn Heb “it will return and be built.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.