Daniel 9:3-6 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 9:1-3

We left Daniel, in the close of the foregoing chapter, employed in the king's business; but here we have him employed in better business than any king had for him, speaking to God and hearing from him, not for himself only, but for the church, whose mouth he was to God, and for whose use the oracles of God were committed to him, relating to the days of the Messiah. Observe, 1. When it was that Daniel had this communion with God (Dan. 9:1), in the first year of Darius the Mede, who was newly... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 9:4-19

We have here Daniel's prayer to God as his God, and the confession which he joined with that prayer: I prayed, and made my confession. Note, In every prayer we must make confession, not only of the sins we have been guilty of (which we commonly call confession), but of our faith in God and dependence upon him, our sorrow for sin and our resolutions against it. It must be our confession, must be the language of our own convictions and that which we ourselves do heartily subscribe to. Let us go... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 9:3

And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications ,.... He set apart some time on purpose for this service, distinct from his usual stated times of prayer, as well as from his civil business and employment; and he not only set his face toward Jerusalem, as he used to do, Daniel 6:10 , the more to affect his mind with the desolations the city and temple lay in; but towards the Lord God, the sovereign Lord of all, who does according to his will in heaven and in earth,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 9:4

And I prayed unto the Lord my God ,.... Not to idols, nor to angels or saints departed; but to the Lord God of heaven and earth, who is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, &c.;: a God hearing and answering prayer; and to whom he directed his prayer, not only as the God of nature and providence, but as his own covenant God and Father; thereby encouraging his faith in him, and using his interest with him: and made my confession; of his own sins, and of the sins of his people; of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 9:5

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled ,.... Some think there is a gradation in these words; that they had committed some sins through error and ignorance; others through infirmity and obliquity, or in the perverseness of their spirits, and the crookedness of their ways; and others wilfully and in malice, in the wickedness of their hearts; and others were open acts of hostility against God, casting off his yoke, and refusing obedience to him,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 9:6

Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets ,.... To their explanations of the laws and judgments of God; to their admonitions, reproofs, and counsels; these they did not attentively listen to, nor give credit to them, nor yield obedience to them; but despised and rejected them, though they were the true prophets and servants of the Lord; such as Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and others: which spake in thy name ; they came by the authority of God, being sent by him; they... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 9:3

I set my face - to seek by prayer - He found that the time of the promised deliverance could not be at any great distance; and as he saw nothing that indicated a speedy termination of their oppressive captivity, he was very much afflicted, and earnestly besought God to put a speedy end to it; and how earnestly he seeks, his own words show. He prayed, he supplicated, he fasted, he put sackcloth upon his body, and he put ashes upon his head. He uses that kind of prayer prescribed by Solomon in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 9:4

Keeping the covenant - Fidelity and truth are characteristics of God. He had never yet broken his engagements to his followers, and was ever showing mercy to men. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 9:3

Verse 3 When they were cast out and dispersed throughout the various countries of the earth, it seemed as if the covenant of God had been abolished, and as if there was no further advantage in deriving their origin from those holy fathers to whom their land had been promised. For the purpose of meeting these temptations, God fixed beforehand a set time for their exile, and Daniel now recurs to this prediction. He adds, Then I raised my face It is properly אתנה, ath-neh, I placed; but as some... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 9:4

Verse 4 Here Daniel relates the substance of his prayer. He says, He prayed and confessed before God The greatest part of this prayer is an entreaty that God would pardon his people. Whenever we ask for pardon, the testimony of repentance ought to precede our request. For God announces that he will be propitious and easily entreated when men seriously and heartily repent. (Isaiah 58:9.) Thus confession of guilt is one method of obtaining pardon; and for this reason Daniel fills up the greater... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 9:1-3

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 9:4-19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 9:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 9:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 9:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 9:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 9:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 9:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 9:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 9:4

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