Daniel 9:24-26
Evangelical Heritage Version
The Vision of Seventy Sevens
24 Seventy sevens[a] are determined concerning your people and your holy city:
to end rebellion,
to finish sin,
and to atone for guilt,
to bring everlasting righteousness,
to seal up prophetic vision,
and to anoint a most holy one.[b]
25 You should know and have insight. From the going out of a word to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one,[c] a ruler, comes, there will be seven sevens and sixty-two sevens.[d] Jerusalem will be rebuilt with public squares and a moat, but during troubled times.
26 Then after the sixty-two sevens, the anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. Both the city and the holy place will be destroyed by the people of a ruler who is coming,[e] and its end will be with a flood. There will be war until the end, and desolations have been decreed.
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- Daniel 9:24 A form of the word seven is used, but it is not the term Daniel uses for an ordinary week of seven days. The “weeks” in this prophecy probably represent periods of seven years.
- Daniel 9:24 The Hebrew phrase is not the usual expression for the Holy of Holies. Here it may refer to a holy person, the Messiah.
- Daniel 9:25 The Hebrew word used here is the source of the English term Messiah and the Greek term Christ.
- Daniel 9:25 The seven sevens extend from Daniel to Nehemiah and the sixty-two sevens from Nehemiah to Christ.
- Daniel 9:26 Titus, the Roman general who destroyed Jerusalem in 70 ad
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