Daniel 9:3 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 9:3

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

BSB

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ASV

And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

KJV

And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

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Commentary

2 voices

Tertullian

ON FASTING 7 (220)

Nor is it merely a change of nature, or aversion of perils or obliteration of sins but likewise the recognition of mysteries that fasts will merit from God. Look at Daniel's example.… In the first year of King Darius, when, after careful and repeated meditation on the times predicted by Jeremiah, he set his face to God in fasts and sackcloth and ashes. An angel was sent to him and immediately stated this had been the cause of the divine honor; he said, "I came to show you, wretched as you are," namely, because he had been fasting.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And I set my face unto the Lord God - Probably the meaning is, that he turned his face toward Jerusalem, the place where God had dwelt; the place of his holy abode on earth. See the notes at Dan 6:10. The language, however, would not be inappropriate to denote prayer without such a supposition. We turn to one whom we address, and so prayer may be described by “setting the face toward God.” The essential idea here is, that he engaged in a set and formal prayer; he engaged in earnest devotion.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה	va.'e.te.Nah	and I set !	H5414 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
פָּנַ֗י	pa.Nai	face my	H6440 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
אֲדֹנָי֙	'a.do.Nai	[the] Lord	H136 →
הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים	ha.'E.lo.Him	<the> God	H430 →
לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ	le.va.Kesh	to seek	H1245 →
תְּפִלָּ֖ה	te.fi.Lah	prayer	H8605 →
וְתַחֲנוּנִ֑ים	ve.ta.cha.nu.Nim	and supplications	H8469 →
בְּצ֖וֹם	be.Tzom	with fasting	H6685 →
וְשַׂ֥ק	ve.Sak	and sackcloth	H8242 →
וָאֵֽפֶר׃	va.'E.fer	and ash[es]	H665 →

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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
Jeremiah 33:3
Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
leads to
- Jeremiah 29:12
  Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
- Isaiah 65:24
  Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
- Ephesians 3:20
  Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
- Isaiah 48:6
  You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them? From now on I will tell you of new things, hidden things unknown to you.
- Psalms 91:15
  When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.
Through
Esther 4:16
“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast…
leads to
- Acts 20:24
  But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good…
- 2 Chronicles 20:3
  Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.
- Joel 2:12–17
  “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”