Daniel 9:25

²³ At the beginning of your petitions, an answer went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly precious. So consider the message and understand the vision:

²⁴ Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.

²⁶ Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.

²⁷ And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.
KJV: Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
WEB: “Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
ASV: Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the anointed one, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troublous times.
DARBY: Know therefore and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street and the moat shall be built again, even in troublous times.
BLB: And you shall know and you shall understand [that] from the going forth of the word to return and to rebuild Jerusalem, until Messiah, a Prince—seven sevens; and sixty and two sevens: it will return and it will be built—street and trench—and in distress of the times!

ÅB: Og du skal vite og forstå: Fra den tid ordet utgår om å gjenreise og ombygge Jerusalem, inntil en salvet[^5], en fyrste, står fram, skal det gå syv uker og to og seksti uker; det skal igjen settes i stand og bygges opp med gater og vollgraver, men under tidenes trengsel[^6].
OTB: Vit og forstå dette: Fra utstedelsen av dekretet om å gjenreise og gjenoppbygge Jerusalem inntil Den Salvede, herskeren, kommer, vil det være syv ‘uker’ og sekstito ‘uker.’ Det vil bli gjenoppbygd med gater og en vollgrav, men i trengselstider.
B1930: Og du skal vite og forstå: Fra den tid ordet utgår om å gjenreise og ombygge Jerusalem, inntil en salvet, en fyrste, står frem, skal det gå syv uker og to og seksti uker; det skal igjen settes i stand og opbygges med gater og vollgraver, men under tidenes trengsel. / < Kristus.> / < NEH 2, 7-9; 3, 1 fg. 4, 9 fg.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ezra 4:24
Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
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Isaiah 55:4
Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.
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Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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John 1:41
He first found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ).
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John 4:25
The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”
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Nehemiah 2:1–8
Now in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad in his presence,
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Nehemiah 4:8
and all of them conspired to come and fight against Jerusalem and create a hindrance.
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Micah 5:2
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel — One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.
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