Daniel 12:1

12:1 “At that time Michael,

the great prince who watches over your people, ¹ 

will arise. ² 

There will be a time of distress

unlike any other from the nation’s beginning ³ 

up to that time.

But at that time your own people,

all those whose names are ⁴  found written in the book,

will escape.

Daniel 9:15

9:15 “Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with great power ⁵  and made a name for yourself that is remembered to this day – we have sinned and behaved wickedly.

Daniel 9:19

9:19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.” ⁶ 

Daniel 11:14

11:14 “In those times many will oppose ⁷  the king of the south. ⁸  Those who are violent ⁹  among your own people will rise up in confirmation of ¹⁰  the vision, but they will falter.

Daniel 9:24

9:24 “Seventy weeks ¹¹  have been determined

concerning your people and your holy city

to put an end to ¹²  rebellion,

to bring sin ¹³  to completion, ¹⁴ 

to atone for iniquity,

to bring in perpetual ¹⁵  righteousness,

to seal up ¹⁶  the prophetic vision, ¹⁷ 

and to anoint a most holy place. ¹⁸ 

[12:1]  ¹ tn Heb “stands over the sons of your people.”

[12:1]  ² tn Heb “will stand up.”

[12:1]  ³ tn Or “from the beginning of a nation.”

[12:1]  ⁴ tn The words “whose names are” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.

[9:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “with a powerful hand.”

[9:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “for your name is called over your city and your people.” See the note on this expression in v 18.

[11:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “stand against.”

[11:14]  ¹⁴ sn This was Ptolemy V Epiphanes (ca. 203-181 B.C.).

[11:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “sons of violence.” “Son(s) is sometimes used idiomatically in Hebrew to indicate that someone is characterized by a certain quality. So the expression “sons of violence” means that these individuals will be characterized by violent deeds.

[11:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “to cause to stand.”

[9:24]  ¹⁷ 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.

[9:24]  ¹⁸ 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.

[9:24]  ¹⁹ tc The present translation reads the Qere (singular), rather than the Kethib (plural).

[9:24]  ²⁰ 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.

[9:24]  ²¹ tn Or “everlasting.”

[9:24]  ²² sn The act of sealing in the OT is a sign of authentication. Cf. 1 Kgs 21:8; Jer 32:10, 11, 44.

[9:24]  ²³ tn Heb “vision and prophecy.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[9:24]  ²⁴ 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.