Daniel 8:24

8:24 His power will be great, but it will not be by his strength alone. He will cause terrible destruction. ¹  He will be successful in what he undertakes. ²  He will destroy powerful people and the people of the holy ones. ³ 

Daniel 10:14

10:14 Now I have come to help you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to future days.”

Daniel 11:32-33

11:32 Then with smooth words he will defile ⁴  those who have rejected ⁵  the covenant. But the people who are loyal to ⁶  their God will act valiantly. ⁷  11:33 These who are wise among the people will teach the masses. ⁸  However, they will fall ⁹  by the sword and by the flame, ¹⁰  and they will be imprisoned and plundered for some time. ¹¹ 

Daniel 12:1

12:1 “At that time Michael,

the great prince who watches over your people, ¹² 

will arise. ¹³ 

There will be a time of distress

unlike any other from the nation’s beginning ¹⁴ 

up to that time.

But at that time your own people,

all those whose names are ¹⁵  found written in the book,

will escape.

Daniel 9:6

9:6 We have not paid attention to your servants the prophets, who spoke by your authority ¹⁶  to our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors, ¹⁷  and to all the inhabitants ¹⁸  of the land as well.

Daniel 9:15

9:15 “Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with great power ¹⁹  and made a name for yourself that is remembered to this day – we have sinned and behaved wickedly.

Daniel 9:19-20

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.” ²⁰ 

Gabriel Gives to Daniel a Prophecy of Seventy Weeks

9:20 While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the LORD my God concerning his holy mountain ²¹  –

Daniel 11:14-15

11:14 “In those times many will oppose ²²  the king of the south. ²³  Those who are violent ²⁴  among your own people will rise up in confirmation of ²⁵  the vision, but they will falter. 11:15 Then the king of the north will advance and will build siege mounds and capture a well-fortified city. ²⁶  The forces of the south will not prevail, not even his finest contingents. ²⁷  They will have no strength to prevail.

Daniel 9:16

9:16 O Lord, according to all your justice, ²⁸  please turn your raging anger ²⁹  away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. For due to our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people are mocked by all our neighbors.

Daniel 9:24

9:24 “Seventy weeks ³⁰  have been determined

concerning your people and your holy city

to put an end to ³¹  rebellion,

to bring sin ³²  to completion, ³³ 

to atone for iniquity,

to bring in perpetual ³⁴  righteousness,

to seal up ³⁵  the prophetic vision, ³⁶ 

and to anoint a most holy place. ³⁷ 

Daniel 9:26

9:26 Now after the sixty-two weeks,

an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. ³⁸ 

As for the city and the sanctuary,

the people of the coming prince will destroy ³⁹  them.

But his end will come speedily ⁴⁰  like a flood. ⁴¹ 

Until the end of the war that has been decreed

there will be destruction.

Daniel 12:7

12:7 Then I heard the man clothed in linen who was over the waters of the river as he raised both his right and left hands to the sky ⁴²  and made an oath by the one who lives forever: “It is for a time, times, and half a time. Then, when the power of the one who shatters ⁴³  the holy people has been exhausted, all these things will be finished.”

[8:24]  ¹ tn Heb “extraordinarily he will destroy.”

[8:24]  ² tn Heb “he will succeed and act.”

[8:24]  ³ tn See the corresponding Aramaic expression in 7:27. If the “holy ones” are angels, then this probably refers to the angels as protectors of God’s people. One could translate, “people belonging to (i.e., protected by) the holy ones.” If the “holy ones” are God’s people, then this is an appositional construction, “the people who are the holy ones.” One could translate simply “holy people.” For examples of a plural appositional genitive after “people,” see 11:15, 32. Because either interpretation is possible, the translation has deliberately preserved the ambiguity of the Hebrew grammar here.

[11:32]  ⁴ tn Or “corrupt.”

[11:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “acted wickedly toward.”

[11:32]  ⁶ tn Heb “know.” The term “know” sometimes means “to recognize.” In relational contexts it can have the connotation “recognize the authority of, be loyal to,” as it does here.

[11:32]  ⁷ sn This is an allusion to the Maccabean revolt, which struggled to bring about Jewish independence in the second century B.C.

[11:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “the many.”

[11:33]  ⁸ tn Heb “stumble.”

[11:33]  ⁹ tn Or “by burning.”

[11:33]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “days.”

[12:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “stands over the sons of your people.”

[12:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “will stand up.”

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

[12:1]  ¹³ tn The words “whose names are” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.

[9:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “in your name.” Another option is to translate, “as your representatives.”

[9:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “our fathers” (also in vv. 8, 16). The Hebrew term translated “father” can refer to more distant relationships such as grandfathers or ancestors.

[9:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “people.”

[9:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “with a powerful hand.”

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

[9:20]  ²² tn Heb “the holy mountain of my God.”

[11:14]  ²⁵ tn Heb “stand against.”

[11:14]  ²⁶ sn This was Ptolemy V Epiphanes (ca. 203-181 B.C.).

[11:14]  ²⁷ 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]  ²⁸ tn Heb “to cause to stand.”

[11:15]  ²⁸ sn This well-fortified city is apparently Sidon. Its capture from the Ptolemies by Antiochus the Great was a strategic victory for the Seleucid kingdom.

[11:15]  ²⁹ tn Or “choice troops” (BDB 104 s.v. מִבְחָר), or “elite troops” (HALOT 542 s.v. מִבְחָר).

[9:16]  ³¹ tn Or “righteousness.”

[9:16]  ³² tn Heb “your anger and your rage.” The synonyms are joined here to emphasize the degree of God’s anger. This is best expressed in English by making one of the terms adjectival (cf. NLT “your furious anger”; CEV “terribly angry”).

[9:24]  ³⁴ 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]  ³⁵ 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]  ³⁶ tc The present translation reads the Qere (singular), rather than the Kethib (plural).

[9:24]  ³⁷ 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]  ³⁸ tn Or “everlasting.”

[9:24]  ³⁹ 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]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “vision and prophecy.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[9:24]  ⁴¹ 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.

[9:26]  ³⁷ sn The expression have nothing is difficult. Presumably it refers to an absence of support or assistance for the anointed one at the time of his “cutting off.” The KJV rendering “but not for himself,” apparently suggesting a vicarious death, cannot be defended.

[9:26]  ³⁸ tc Some witnesses (e.g., the Syriac) understand a passive verb and the preposition עִם (’im, “with) rather than the noun עַם (’am, “people”), thus reading “the city and the sanctuary will be destroyed with the coming prince.”

[9:26]  ³⁹ tn The words “will come speedily” are not in the Hebrew text but have been added in the translation for clarity.

[9:26]  ⁴⁰ sn Flood here is a metaphor for sudden destruction.

[12:7]  ⁴⁰ tn Or “to the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

[12:7]  ⁴¹ tc The present translation reads יַד־נֹפֵץ (yad-nofets, “hand of one who shatters”) rather than the MT נַפֵּץ־יַד (nappets-yad, “to shatter the hand”).