Daniel 9:1-12

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Darius <01867> [A.M. 3466. B.C. 538. Darius.]

Ahasuerus <0325> [Ahasuerus.]

This was the Astyages of the heathen historians; as we learn from Tobit 14:15, where the taking of Nineveh is ascribed to Nebuchadnezzar and Assuerus, who were the same with Nabopolassar and Astyages.

king <04427> [which. or, in which he, etc.]

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understand <0995> [understood.]

Jeremiah <03414> [to Jeremiah.]

desolation <02723> [the desolations.]

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So I <05414> [I set.]

fasting <06685> [with.]

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confessing <03034> [made.]

great <01419> [the great.]

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sinned <02398> [have sinned.]

turning away from <05493> [departing.]

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attention <08085> [have we.]

kings <04428> [our kings.]

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righteous <06666> [righteousness.]

humiliated <01322> [belongeth unto thee. or, thou hast, etc. unto us.]

near <07138> [near.]

scattered <05080> [whither.]

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humiliated <01322> [to us.]

sinned <02398> [because.]

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Lord <0136> [To the Lord.]

From God's goodness flow His mercies; and from His mercies, forgiveness.

rebelled <04775> [though.]

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set <05414> [which.]

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Israel <03478> [all.]

judgment <0423> [the curse.]

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threats <06965> [confirmed.]

rulers .............. happened <08199> [our judges.]

heaven <08064> [for under.]

The destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and the condition of the Jews during almost eighteen centuries, have far more exceeded all the miseries of the capture of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, and in the Babylonish captivity, than those miseries exceeded the judgments inflicted on other nations; for the guilt of crucifying the Messiah, and rejecting his gospel, was immensely more atrocious than all their other transgressions.