Through My Bible Yr 2 – December 15

The Seventy “Sevens”

²⁰ While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the LORD my God for his holy hill- ²¹ while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice. ²² He instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. ²³As soon as you began to pray, an answer was given, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the message and understand the vision:

²⁴ “Seventy ‘sevens’ ^[a] are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish ^[b] transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy. ^[c]

²⁵ “Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree ^[d] to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, ^[e] the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. ²⁶ After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. ^[f] The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. ²⁷ He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ ^[g] In the middle of the ‘seven’ ^[h] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him. ^[i] ” ^[j]

Footnotes:

1. Daniel 9:24 Or ‘weeks’ ; also in verses 25 and 26
2. Daniel 9:24 Or restrain
3. Daniel 9:24 Or Most Holy Place ; or most holy One
4. Daniel 9:25 Or word
5. Daniel 9:25 Or an anointed one ; also in verse 26
6. Daniel 9:26 Or off and will have no one ; or off, but not for himself
7. Daniel 9:27 Or ‘week’
8. Daniel 9:27 Or ‘week’
9. Daniel 9:27 Or it
10. Daniel 9:27 Or And one who causes desolation will come upon the pinnacle of the abominable temple , until the end that is decreed is poured out on the desolated city

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright©1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.