Daniel 12:2 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 12:2

And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

BSB

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ASV

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

KJV

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

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Commentary

4 voices

Basil of Caesarea

LETTER 260:4, TO OPTIMUS THE BISHOP (379)

To all who reason rightly, the heaviest of punishments is shame. We also have learned this in the case of the judgment, when "some" shall rise "to everlasting life and some to everlasting shame and contempt."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The Jews themselves understand this of the resurrection of the dead at the end of time; and Christ seems to have an eye to it when he speaks of the resurrection of life and the resurrection of damnation ( John v. 29 ); and upon this the Jews are said by St. Paul to expect a resurrection of the dead both of the just and of the unjust, Acts xxiv.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth - This prophecy has been referred to the future restoration of the Jews. It will be also true of the state of mankind at the general judgment.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

2 Maccabees 7:9, 14, 23, shows the fruit of this prophecy in animating the Maccabean mother and her sons to brave death, while confessing the resurrection in words like those here. NEWTON'S view that "many" means all, is not so probable; for Ro 5:15, 19, which he quotes, is not in point, since the Greek is "the many," that is, all, but there is no article in the Hebrew here.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְרַבִּ֕ים	ve.ra.Bim	and many [people]	H7227 →
מִיְּשֵׁנֵ֥י	mi.ye.she.Nei	of [the] sleepers of	H3463 →
אַדְמַת־	'ad.mat-	[the] ground of	H127 →
עָפָ֖ר	'a.Far	dust	H6083 →
יָקִ֑יצוּ	ya.Ki.tzu	they will awake	H6974 →
אֵ֚לֶּה	'E.leh	these	H428 →
לְחַיֵּ֣י	le.chai.Yei	to life of	H2416 →
עוֹלָ֔ם	o.Lam	perpetuity	H5769 →
וְאֵ֥לֶּה	ve.'E.leh	and these	H428 →
לַחֲרָפ֖וֹת	la.cha.ra.Fot	to reproaches	H2781 →
לְדִרְא֥וֹן	le.dir.'on	to abhorrence of	H1860 →
עוֹלָֽם׃ ס	o.Lam	perpetuity	H5769 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 26:19
Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her…
leads to
- Hosea 13:14
  I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 37:1–14
  The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
- Matthew 27:52
  The tombs broke open, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised.
- Ephesians 5:14
  So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Through
Matthew 25:46
And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
leads to
- John 5:29
  and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
- John 3:36
  Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
- Revelation 21:8
  But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This…
- Revelation 20:15
  And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Daniel

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Daniel