11:1 So the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, 1 while the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten to settle in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the other nine 2 remained in other cities.
11:1 So the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, 3 while the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten to settle in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the other nine 4 remained in other cities.
9:24 “Seventy weeks 6 have been determined
concerning your people and your holy city
to put an end to 7 rebellion,
to bring sin 8 to completion, 9
to atone for iniquity,
to bring in perpetual 10 righteousness,
to seal up 11 the prophetic vision, 12
and to anoint a most holy place. 13
24:15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation 14 – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
1 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
2 tn Heb “nine of the hands.” The word “hand” is used here in the sense or a part or portion.
3 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
4 tn Heb “nine of the hands.” The word “hand” is used here in the sense or a part or portion.
5 tn Heb “heads of fathers.”
6 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.
7 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.
8 tc The present translation reads the Qere (singular), rather than the Kethib (plural).
9 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.
10 tn Or “everlasting.”
11 sn The act of sealing in the OT is a sign of authentication. Cf. 1 Kgs 21:8; Jer 32:10, 11, 44.
12 tn Heb “vision and prophecy.” The expression is a hendiadys.
13 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.
14 sn The reference to the abomination of desolation is an allusion to Dan 9:27. Though some have seen the fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy in the actions of Antiochus IV (or a representative of his) in 167
15 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
16 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
17 tn On the term αὐλήν (aulhn) BDAG 150 s.v. αὐλή 1 states, “(outer) court of the temple…Rv 11:2.”
18 tn The precise meaning of the phrase ἔκβαλε ἔξωθεν (ekbale exwqen) is difficult to determine.
19 tn Or “to the nations” (the same Greek word may be translated “Gentiles” or “nations”).
20 sn The holy city appears to be a reference to Jerusalem. See also Luke 21:24.