Daniel 10:2
in Daniel 10In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.
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ASV
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
KJV
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
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This verse in Daniel 10
Commentary
2 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Compare Mt 9:14, "fast," answering to "mourn" (Da 10:15). 1Ti 4:3, which prove that "fasting" is not an indispensable Christian obligation; but merely an outward expression of sorrow, and separation from ordinary worldly enjoyments, in order to give one's self to prayer (Ac 13:2).
This site's exposition
In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia
on Daniel 10:1-3
The final vision comes in the third year of Cyrus, after the decree of Ezra 1 has already let a remnant go up, and the thing revealed is called true and the time appointed long, the corridor of chapters eleven and twelve now opened. Daniel mourns three full weeks, eating no pleasant bread, no flesh or wine, using no oil, a partial fast the bench connects to the resistance already raised against the rebuilding recorded at Ezra 4, grief over a work begun and then hindered. The date, the twenty-fourth of the first month, sets the vision just after Israel's own Passover season, the feast of the exodus kept while Daniel fasts over a second exodus stalled.
The words behind it
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בַּיָּמִ֖ים | baiyamim | in the days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הָהֵ֑ם | hahem | <the> those | H1992 → | |
| אֲנִ֤י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| דָֽנִיֵּאל֙ | daniyel | Daniel | H1840 → | 24 times |
| הָיִ֣יתִי | hayiti | I was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| מִתְאַבֵּ֔ל | mitabel | mourning | H56 → | |
| שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה | sheloshah | three | H7969 → | 432 times |
| שָׁבֻעִ֖ים | shavuim | sevens | H7620 → | 20 times |
| יָמִֽים׃ | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
בַּיָּמִ֖יםin the days
baiyamimH3117 →2304 times
הָהֵ֑ם<the> those
hahemH1992 →
אֲנִ֤יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
דָֽנִיֵּאל֙Daniel
daniyelH1840 →24 times
הָיִ֣יתִיI was
hayitiH1961 →3559 times
מִתְאַבֵּ֔לmourning
mitabelH56 →
שְׁלֹשָׁ֥הthree
sheloshahH7969 →432 times
שָׁבֻעִ֖יםsevens
shavuimH7620 →20 times
יָמִֽים׃days
yamimH3117 →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
Jeremiah 9:1Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 13:17
But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
- Jeremiah 13:17
Through
Nehemiah 1:4When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
it leads to
- Daniel 9:3
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
- Psalms 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
- Ezra 10:1
While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.
- Daniel 9:3
Through
Romans 9:2I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
it leads to
- Philippians 3:18
For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
- Romans 10:1
Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.
- Psalms 119:136
My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
- Philippians 3:18
Where this verse is studied
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About Daniel
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Daniel; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Daniel and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.