Daniel 9:1-24

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 9:20-22

‘And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before YHWH my God for the mountain of holiness of my God, yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly in weariness, touched me (or ‘reached me’) at about the time of the evening oblation. And he instructed me and talked with me, and said, “O Daniel, I have now come to make you to make you wise... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 9:23

“At the beginning of your supplications the word went forth, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter and understand the vision.” Gabriel assures him that ‘the word went forth’ for the fulfilment of his hopes right from the beginning of his prayer. He was not heard for his much speaking but because of the graciousness of God towards a beloved servant. The idea of ‘the word going forth’ is powerful. God makes His decree and sends forth His word to... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 9:24

“Seventy sevens are decreed on your people, and on your holy city, to finish transgression, and to make and end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy (‘one’ or ‘place’).” The seventy sevens are here seen as not only making the situation right between the nation and God, resulting at the commencement in the rebuilding of the city and the sanctuary in the first ‘seven’, (which was... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 9:1-2

Daniel 9:1 . Darius: Daniel 5:31 *. Daniel 9:2 . Jeremiah the prophet: the reference is to the prophecies in Jeremiah 25:11 f; Jeremiah 29:10. Daniel is distressed by the apparent failure of these prophecies and seeks to discover an explanation. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 9:4-19

Daniel 9:4-Psalms : . According to Charles, a later interpolation containing the confession of Daniel. This prayer was evidently written by a Palestinian Jew (see Daniel 9:7 and Daniel 9:16), and does not, therefore, maintain the point of view assumed in the rest of the book, where the writer is supposed to be living at the court of Babylon. There is little originality in the prayer, and many of its phrases are borrowed from other parts of the OT. Daniel 9:11 . written in the law of Moses: ... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 9:20-26

Daniel 9:20-Ezekiel : . The explanation of Jeremiah’ s prophecy. Daniel 9:21 . being caused to fly swiftly: the meaning of the original is obscure; mg, gives an alternative rendering, “ being sore wearied,” but neither translation is satisfactory. If “ fly swiftly” is correct, this is the earliest reference to the later popular conception that angels possess wings. Daniel 9:24 . seventy weeks: this phrase gives the new principle upon which Jeremiah’ s prophecy is to be reinterpreted.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 9:1

In the first year of Darius; that is, immediately after the overthrow of the kingdom of Babylon, which was also the year of the Jews’ deliverance from their seventy years’ captivity; therefore punctually here set down. The Lord hath carefully recorded the several periods of time that relate to his church, and the signal providences both of mercy or judgment exercised towards it; for hereby God is glorified in the signal displaying of his attributes, and the saints’ graces exercised, especially... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 9:2

Understood by books; by sacred books, both of Jeremiah the prophet, Jeremiah 25:11,Jeremiah 25:12; Jeremiah 29:10; so also the Pentateuch, which he had, as is plain, Daniel 9:10-13, &c.; by which we see this great prophet did not disdain to study the word of God, and the state of the church of God, though he had the converse and revelation of angels, and though he was in a heathen court, and in high office, which required great attendance. That he would accomplish seventy years in the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 9:3

Observe two things: 1. That deep revolting, and deep afflictions, call for deep and solemn humiliation. 2. God’s decrees and promises do not excuse us from duty and prayer, but include it and require it. God will be inquired of for those things which he hath purposed and promised to give his people, Ezekiel 36:37. And if it be objected by any, (as it is by Calovius,) that both God’s threats and promises are absolute, and not hypothetical, as they will prove by Jeremiah 25:11,Jeremiah 25:12;... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 9:4

By this it appeared he prayed in faith, to the true God, and his God. 2. He made confession of sin when he prayed for deliverance, because hereby he justified God in the captivity of his people. 3. He knew if God vouchsafed pardon of sin, upon this confession, that would be a sure foundation of future mercy. 4. He set down here the words of his prayer, because it is the prayer of a righteous man, and one of God’s eminent saints and favourites in Scripture, who had great power with God in... read more

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