Daniel 9:23-27
beginning <08462> [the beginning.]
message ......................... message <01697> [commandment. Heb. word. for.]
<02532> [greatly beloved. Heb. a man of desires.]
consider ..... understand <0995> [understand.]
Seventy weeks <07657 07620> [Seventy weeks.]
That is, seventy weeks of years, or 490 years, which reckoned from the seventh year of Artaxerxes, coinciding with the 4,256th year of the Julian period, and in the month {Nisan,} in which Ezra was commissioned to restore the Jewish state and polity, (Ezr 7:9-26) will bring us to the month of Nisan of the 4,746th year of the same period, or A.D. 33, the very month and year in which our Lord suffered, and completed the work of our salvation.
atone <03607> [finish. or, restrain.]
bring ...... atone for .... bring ...... seal ........ anoint <08552 03722 0935 02856 04886> [and to.]
sin <08552 02403> [make an end of. or, seal up.]
atone for <08552 03722> [to make.]
bring <0935> [to bring.]
bring ...... atone .......... seal <02856> [seal up.]
prophetic <05030> [prophecy. Heb. prophet.]
anoint <04886> [and to anoint.]
holy ................................. most holy <06944> [the most.]
understand <07919> [and understand.]
issuing <04161> [from.]
restore ... rebuild Jerusalem ...................... again ... built <01129 03389 07725> [restore and to build Jerusalem. or, build again Jerusalem: as.]
anointed one <04899> [the Messiah.]
prince <05057> [the Prince.]
seven weeks .... weeks <07620 07651> [seven weeks.]
The seventy weeks are here divided into three periods. 1. Seven weeks, or 49 years, for the restoration of Jerusalem. 2. Sixty-two weeks, or 434 years, from that time to the announcement of the Messiah by John the Baptist. 3. One week, or seven years, for the ministry of John and of CHRIST himself to the crucifixion.
restore ... rebuild ....................... again ... built <07725 01129> [be built again. Heb. return and be builded. wall. or, breach, or, ditch. even.]
distressful times <06256 06695> [troublous times. Heb. strait of times.]
anointed one <04899> [Messiah.]
people <05971> [but not. or, and shall have nothing.]
people <05971> [and the people, etc. or, and (the Jews) shall be no more his people.]
[or, and the Prince's (Messiah's, ver. 25,) future people.]
The Romans, who under Titus, after the expiration of the 70 weeks, destroyed the temple and the city, and dispersed the Jews.
prince <05057> [the prince.]
end .......... end <07093> [and the end.]
flood <07858> [with.]
decreed ..... destruction <08074 02782> [desolations are determined. or, it shall be cut off by desolations]
confirm <01396> [confirm.]
covenant <01285> [the covenant. or, a covenant. cause.]
wing ... abominations ...... destroys ............. destroys <08251 08074 03671> [for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate. or, upon the battlements shall be the idols of the desolator.]
decreed <02782> [that determined.]
destroys ............. destroys <08074> [upon the desolate. or, upon the desolator.]
