Daniel 9:26
in Daniel 9Then 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.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And after the threescore and two weeks shall the anointed one be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
KJV
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
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This verse in Daniel 9
Commentary
5 notes on this verseon Daniel 9:24-27
Verses 24-27. "'Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished, and everlasting justice may be brought to bear, and that the vision and prophecy may be fulfilled that the Holy One of the saints may be anointed. Know therefore and take note that from the going forth of the word to build up Jerusalem again, unto Christ the prince, there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks, and the street shall be built again, and the walls, in distressing times.
This site's exposition
shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself
After the sixty-two weeks Messiah is cut off, but not for himself, a phrase the bench reads as substitutionary, dying not for his own sin but another's, and the timing places the cutting off after the sixty-nine weeks rather than within the seventieth. The people of the prince that shall come then destroy the city and the sanctuary, the near-universal reading applying this to Rome's legions under Titus in AD 70, decades after Messiah's own death, the prince himself distinct from his people. The end comes with a flood and desolations determined unto the end of the war, language the older writers read as the whole span of trouble running from the cross to the temple's fall.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Now you hesitate to believe what we have stated, although you see that these things have happened. Therefore we ought to seek again the times that were foretold, both as pertaining to the birth and suffering of Christ and the removal of the city Jerusalem, that is, its destruction. Daniel says that the holy city and its sanctuary will be removed when the prince comes and that its pinnacle would be utterly destroyed. The times for the coming of the Christ must be sought again, as we found out in Daniel.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And after - After the seven and the sixty two that followed them. Not for himself - But for our sakes, and for our salvation. And the people - The Roman under the conduct of Titus.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary - By the “prince” Titus, the son of Vespasian, is plainly intended; and “the people of that prince” are no other than the Romans, who, according to the prophecy, destroyed the sanctuary, הקדש hakkodesh, the holy place or temple, and, as a flood, swept away all, till the total destruction of that obstinate people finished the war.
The words behind it
21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאַחֲרֵ֤י | veacharei | and after | H310 → | |
| הַשָּׁבֻעִים֙ | hashavuim | the sevens | H7620 → | 20 times |
| שִׁשִּׁ֣ים | shishim | sixty | H8346 → | |
| וּשְׁנַ֔יִם | ushenayim | and two | H8147 → | 768 times |
| יִכָּרֵ֥ת | yikaret | he will be cut off | H3772 → | |
| מָשִׁ֖יחַ | mashiach | an anointed [one] | H4899 → | |
| וְאֵ֣ין | veein | and nothing | H369 → | 789 times |
| ל֑וֹ | lo | [will belong] to him | ||
| וְהָעִ֨יר | vehair | and the city | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| וְהַקֹּ֜דֶשׁ | vehakodesh | and the sanctuary | H6944 → | 469 times |
| יַ֠שְׁחִית | yashchit | it will destroy | H7843 → | 146 times |
| עַ֣ם | ʾam | [the] people of | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| נָגִ֤יד | nagid | a prince | H5057 → | 45 times |
| הַבָּא֙ | haba' | who is coming | H935 → | 2568 times |
| וְקִצּ֣וֹ | vekitzo | and end his | H7093 → | 67 times |
| בַשֶּׁ֔טֶף | vashetef | [will be] by <the> flood | H7858 → | |
| וְעַד֙ | vead | and [will be] until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| קֵ֣ץ | ketz | [the] end | H7093 → | 67 times |
| מִלְחָמָ֔ה | milchamah | war | H4421 → | 320 times |
| נֶחֱרֶ֖צֶת | necheretzet | [are] determined | H2782 → | 11 times |
| שֹׁמֵמֽוֹת׃ | shomemot | desolate [things] | H8074 → | 86 times |
וְאַחֲרֵ֤יand after
veachareiH310 →
הַשָּׁבֻעִים֙the sevens
hashavuimH7620 →20 times
שִׁשִּׁ֣יםsixty
shishimH8346 →
וּשְׁנַ֔יִםand two
ushenayimH8147 →768 times
יִכָּרֵ֥תhe will be cut off
yikaretH3772 →
מָשִׁ֖יחַan anointed [one]
mashiachH4899 →
וְאֵ֣יןand nothing
veeinH369 →789 times
ל֑וֹ[will belong] to him
lo
וְהָעִ֨ירand the city
vehairH5892 →1090 times
וְהַקֹּ֜דֶשׁand the sanctuary
vehakodeshH6944 →469 times
יַ֠שְׁחִיתit will destroy
yashchitH7843 →146 times
עַ֣ם[the] people of
ʾamH5971 →1873 times
נָגִ֤ידa prince
nagidH5057 →45 times
הַבָּא֙who is coming
haba'H935 →2568 times
וְקִצּ֣וֹand end his
vekitzoH7093 →67 times
בַשֶּׁ֔טֶף[will be] by <the> flood
vashetefH7858 →
וְעַד֙and [will be] until
veadH5704 →1261 times
קֵ֣ץ[the] end
ketzH7093 →67 times
מִלְחָמָ֔הwar
milchamahH4421 →320 times
נֶחֱרֶ֖צֶת[are] determined
necheretzetH2782 →11 times
שֹׁמֵמֽוֹת׃desolate [things]
shomemotH8074 →86 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
1 Peter 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
it leads to
- Isaiah 53:4–6
Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
- Matthew 8:17
This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took on our infirmities and carried our diseases.”
- Romans 6:11
So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
- Revelation 22:2
down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month.…
- 1 John 2:29
If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
- Isaiah 53:4–6
Through
Isaiah 53:8By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
it leads to
- 1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- Acts 8:33
In His humiliation He was deprived of justice. Who can recount His descendants? For His life was removed from the earth.”
- 1 Peter 3:18
Through
Luke 24:26Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”
it leads to
- 1 Peter 1:11
trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.
- 1 Peter 1:11
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About Daniel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Daniel; Jerome, St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER NINE; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Tertullian, AN ANSWER TO THE JEWS 8.