Daniel 10:14
in Daniel 10Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision concerns those days.”
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days.
KJV
Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
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This verse in Daniel 10
Commentary
9 notes on this verseVerse 14. "And I have come to teach thee what things shall befall thy people in the last days." The very petition which Daniel had requested is the thing which he deserves to hear from God, namely what is going to happen to the people of Israel, not in the near future, but in the last days, that is, at the end of the world.
This site's exposition
an hand touched me
on Daniel 10:10-14
A hand sets Daniel on his knees, and he is called a man greatly beloved for the third time in these two chapters, told plainly that his words were heard from the first day he set his heart to understand and chasten himself, three weeks before the messenger could arrive. The delay is explained on the messenger's own testimony: the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood him twenty-one days, until Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help him, language the text uses of its own accord rather than anything the notes construct beyond it. The bench reads this as Scripture itself setting angelic princes over the nations without building a system from it, the older writers naming Persia's and Michael's princes plainly while modern students of the divine council, Michael Heiser among them, read the same verses as evidence of a heavenly host set over the nations, cited here only where they add to what the text already states.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
A commentator
Augustine of HippoEXPLANATIONS OF THE PSALMS 119:73 · Written in the 5th century.
proposed
The Greek version has a more concise expression for "give me understanding," sunetison me, expressing "give understanding" by the single word sunetison, which the Latin cannot do; as if one could not say, "Heal me," and it were necessary to say, "Give me health," as it is here said, "Give me understanding"; or "Make me whole," as here it may be said, "Make me intelligent." This indeed an angel could do, for he said to Daniel, "I come to give you understanding"; and this word is in the Greek, as it is here also, sunetisai se; as if the Latin translator were to render therapeusai se by sanitatem dare tibi. For the Latin interpreter would not make a circumlocution by saying, to give you understanding, if, as we say from health, "to heal you," so one could say from intellect, "to intellectuate you." But if an angel could do this, what reason is there that this man should pray that this be done for him by God? Is it because God had commanded the angel to do it? Just so: for Christ is understood to have given this command to the angel.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Daniel must be made to know what shall befal his people in the latter days of the church, after the cessation of prophecy, and when the time drew nigh for the Messiah to appear, for yet the vision is for many days; the principal things that this vision was intended to give the church the foresight of would come to pass in the days of Antiochus, nearly 300 years after this.
9 Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground. This vision is dated in the third year of Cyrus, that is, of his reign after the conquest of Babylon, his third year since Daniel became acquainted with him and a subject to him. A general idea of this prophecy (
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Now I am come to make thee to understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
what shall befall thy people in the latter days--an intimation that the prophecy, besides describing the doings of Antiochus, reaches to the concluding calamities of Israel's history, prior to the nation's full restoration at Christ's coming--calamities of which Antiochus' persecutions were the type. vision is for many days--that is, extends far into the future.
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2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
For yet the vision is for many days - There are many things which remain yet to be revealed, and the time of their accomplishment is very distant.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Now I am come to make thee understand ... - After these long delays, and after the arrangements have been made necessary to bring about the objects sought by your prayers. In the latter days - In future times - extending down to the last period of the world. See the notes at Isa 2:2. For yet the vision is for many days - Extends far into future time. It is probable that the prayer of Daniel referred more particularly to what he desired should soon occur - the restoration of the people to their own land; the angel informs him that the disclosures which he was to make covered a much more extended period, and embraced more important events. So it is often. The answer to prayer often includes much more than we asked for, and the abundant blessings that are conferred, beyond what we supplicate, are vastly beyond a compensation for the delay.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
for there is yet a vision to tell you what has not yet been told, and it will come in many days at an appointed time.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
has been standing against me to battle with me in heaven by requesting an extension for the kingdom for Persia to enable them to subjugate you (Israel). Behold twenty-one days that he has been standing against me.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 2 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבָ֙אתִי֙ | uvati | and I have come | H935 → | 2568 times |
| לַהֲבִ֣ינְךָ֔ | lahavinekha | to make understand you | H995 → | 170 times |
| אֵ֛ת | ʾet | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אֲשֶׁר־ | ʾasher- | [that] which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| יִקְרָ֥ה | yikrah | it will happen | H7136 → | |
| לְעַמְּךָ֖ | leamekha | to people your | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| בְּאַחֲרִ֣ית | beacharit | at [the] end of | H319 → | 61 times |
| הַיָּמִ֑ים | haiyamim | the days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| כִּי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| ע֥וֹד | od | still | H5750 → | 490 times |
| חָז֖וֹן | chazon | [the] vision | H2377 → | 35 times |
| לַיָּמִֽים׃ | laiyamim | [is] for the days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
וּבָ֙אתִי֙and I have come
uvatiH935 →2568 times
לַהֲבִ֣ינְךָ֔to make understand you
lahavinekhaH995 →170 times
אֵ֛ת<obj.>
ʾetH853 →10935 times
אֲשֶׁר־[that] which
ʾasher-H834 →5497 times
יִקְרָ֥הit will happen
yikrahH7136 →
לְעַמְּךָ֖to people your
leamekhaH5971 →1873 times
בְּאַחֲרִ֣יתat [the] end of
beacharitH319 →61 times
הַיָּמִ֑יםthe days
haiyamimH3117 →2304 times
כִּי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
ע֥וֹדstill
odH5750 →490 times
חָז֖וֹן[the] vision
chazonH2377 →35 times
לַיָּמִֽים׃[is] for the days
laiyamimH3117 →2304 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Habakkuk 2:3For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay.
it leads to
- Psalms 27:14
Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
- Hebrews 10:36–37
You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
- Ezekiel 12:25
because I, the LORD, will speak whatever word I speak, and it will be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak a message and bring it to pass,…
- Lamentations 3:25–26
The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
- Psalms 102:13
You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor— the appointed time has come.
- Psalms 27:14
Through
Daniel 12:4But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”
it leads to
- Daniel 12:9
“Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Daniel 8:26
The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been spoken is true. Now you must seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.”
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Daniel 12:9
Through
Daniel 12:9“Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.
it leads to
- Daniel 12:4
But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Daniel 12:4
Where this verse is studied
About Daniel
This page draws on 10 works. Open the list of works
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Daniel; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Augustine of Hippo, EXPLANATIONS OF THE PSALMS 119:73; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Daniel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER TEN; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Michael Heiser, The Unseen Realm.