Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
Note Or Seventy sevens; also twice in verse 25 and once in verse 26
Note Or the Holy of Holies or the Most Holy One; literally the Most Holy
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Note finish: or, restrain
Note make an…: or, seal up
Note prophecy: Heb. prophet
“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, 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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Seventy weeks
- That is, seventy weeks of years, or 490 years, which reckoned from the seventh year of Artaxerxes, coinciding with the 4,256th year of the Julian period, and in the month {Nisan,} in which Ezra was commissioned to restore the Jewish state and polity, (Ezr 7:9-26) will bring us to the month of Nisan of the 4,746th year of the same period, or A.D. 33, the very month and year in which our Lord suffered, and completed the work of our salvation.
- Leviticus 25:8; Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6
- finish
- or, restrain.
- Matthew 1:21; 1 John 3:8
- and to
- Lamentations 4:22; Colossians 2:14; Hebrews 9:26; Hebrews 10:14
- make an end of
- or, seal up.
- Ezekiel 28:12
- to make
- Leviticus 8:15; 2 Chronicles 29:24; Isaiah 53:10; Romans 5:10; 2 Corinthians 5:18–20; Colossians 1:20; Hebrews 2:17
- to bring
- Isaiah 51:6, 8; Isaiah 53:11; Isaiah 56:1; Jeremiah 23:5, 6; Romans 3:21, 22; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 3:9; Hebrews 9:12–14; 2 Peter 1:1; Revelation 14:6
- seal up
- Matthew 11:13; Luke 24:25–27, 44, 45; John 19:28–30
- prophecy
- Heb. prophet.
- Acts 3:22
- and to anoint
- Psalm 2:6; Psalm 45:7; Isaiah 61:1; Luke 4:18–21; John 1:41; John 3:34; Hebrews 1:8, 9; Hebrews 9:11
- the most
- Mark 1:24; Luke 1:35; Acts 3:14; Hebrews 7:26; Revelation 3:7