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to confirm the prophetic vision, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. <a href="/esv/daniel/9.htm">English Standard Version</a> “Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place. <a href="/bsb/daniel/9.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> 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. <a href="/kjv/daniel/9.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/daniel/9.htm">New King James Version</a> “Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, 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. <a href="/nasb_/daniel/9.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the wrongdoing, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. <a href="/nasb/daniel/9.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. <a href="/nasb77/daniel/9.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place. <a href="/lsb/daniel/9.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> “Seventy weeks have been determined for your people and for your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies. <a href="/amp/daniel/9.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “Seventy weeks [of years, or 490 years] have been decreed for your people and for your holy city (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make atonement (reconciliation) for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness (right-standing with God), to seal up vision and prophecy and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. <a href="/csb/daniel/9.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city — to bring the rebellion to an end, to put a stop to sin, to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place. <a href="/hcsb/daniel/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city— to bring the rebellion to an end, to put a stop to sin, to wipe away iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place. <a href="/asv/daniel/9.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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. <a href="/cev/daniel/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> God has decided that for 70 weeks, your people and your holy city must suffer as the price of their sins. Then evil will disappear, and justice will rule forever; the visions and words of the prophets will come true, and a most holy place will be dedicated. <a href="/erv/daniel/9.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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. <a href="/gwt/daniel/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> "Seventy sets of seven time periods have been assigned for your people and your holy city. These time periods will serve to bring an end to rebellion, to stop sin, to forgive wrongs, to usher in everlasting righteousness, to put a seal on a prophet's vision, and to anoint the Most Holy One. <a href="/gnt/daniel/9.htm">Good News Translation</a> "Seven times seventy years is the length of time God has set for freeing your people and your holy city from sin and evil. Sin will be forgiven and eternal justice established, so that the vision and the prophecy will come true, and the holy Temple will be rededicated. <a href="/isv/daniel/9.htm">International Standard Version</a> Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. <a href="/msb/daniel/9.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> 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. <a href="/net/daniel/9.htm">NET Bible</a> "Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place. <a href="/nheb/daniel/9.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to put an end to the transgression, and to make an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place. <a href="/wbt/daniel/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> 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. <a href="/web/daniel/9.htm">World English Bible</a> “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. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/daniel/9.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Seventy periods of seven are determined for your people and for your holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in continuous righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Holy of Holies. <a href="/ylt/daniel/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> 'Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies. <a href="/slt/daniel/9.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Seventy seventy were divided upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to expiate iniquity, and to bring in eternal justice, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the holy of holies.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/daniel/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the saint of saints may be anointed. <a href="/cpdv/daniel/9.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Seventy weeks of years are concentrated on your people and on your holy city, so that transgression shall be finished, and sin shall reach an end, and iniquity shall be wiped away, and so that everlasting justice shall be brought in, and vision and prophecy shall be fulfilled, and the Saint of saints shall be anointed. <a href="/nabre/daniel/9.htm">New American Bible</a> “Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and for your holy city: Then transgression will stop and sin will end, guilt will be expiated, Everlasting justice will be introduced, vision and prophecy ratified, and a holy of holies will be anointed. <a href="/nrsvce/daniel/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> “Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city: to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/daniel/9.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Seventy times seven weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgressions and to make an end of sins and for the forgiveness of the iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to fulfill the vision of the prophets and to give the most holy to Messiah. <a href="/hpbt/daniel/9.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Seventy weeks shall remain for your people and for the city of your holiness, and to finish debts and to end sins, for the release from evil, and to bring righteousness from eternity, and to finish the vision and the Prophets, and to The Messiah, The Holy of Holies<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/daniel/9.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sin, and to forgive iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal vision and prophet, and to anoint the most holy place. <a href="/sep/daniel/9.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> Seventy weeks have been determined upon thy people, and upon the holy city, for sin to be ended, and to seal up transgressions, and to blot out the iniquities, and to make atonement for iniquities, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal the vision and the prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy. <a href="/parallel/daniel/9-24.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/shUZJK-vYxI?start=3441" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/daniel/9.htm">Gabriel's Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks</a> …23At the beginning of your petitions, an answer went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly precious. So consider the message and understand the vision: 24<a href="/hebrew/7657.htm" title="7657: šiḇ·‘îm (Number-cp) -- Seventy (a card. number). Multiple of sheba'; seventy.">Seventy</a> <a href="/hebrew/7620.htm" title="7620: šā·ḇu·‘îm (N-mp) -- Or shabuan; also shbu.ah; properly, passive participle of shaba' as a denominative of sheba'; literal, sevened, i.e. A week.">weeks</a> <a href="/hebrew/2852.htm" title="2852: neḥ·taḵ (V-Nifal-Perf-3ms) -- To divide, determine. A primitive root; properly, to cut off, i.e. to decree.">are decreed</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">for</a> <a href="/hebrew/5971.htm" title="5971: ‘am·mə·ḵā (N-msc:: 2ms) -- From amam; a people; specifically, a tribe; hence troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock.">your people</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: wə·‘al- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6944.htm" title="6944: qāḏ·še·ḵā (N-msc:: 2ms) -- Apartness, sacredness. From qadash; a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity.">and your holy</a> <a href="/hebrew/5892.htm" title="5892: ‘îr (N-fsc) -- Excitement. Or par; or ayar; from uwr a city in the widest sense.">city</a> <a href="/hebrew/3615.htm" title="3615: lə·ḵal·lê (Prep-l:: V-Piel-Inf) -- To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent. A primitive root; to end, whether intransitive or transitived.">to stop</a> <a href="/hebrew/6588.htm" title="6588: hap·pe·ša‘ (Art:: N-ms) -- Transgression. From pasha'; a revolt.">their transgression,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2856.htm" title="2856: ū·laḥ·tōm (Conj-w, Prep-l:: V-Hifil-Inf) -- To seal, affix a seal, seal up. A primitive root; to close up; especially to seal.">to put an end</a> <a href="/hebrew/2403.htm" title="2403: ḥaṭ·ṭå̄·ʾōṯ (N-fs) -- Or chattacth; from chata'; an offence, and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also an offender.">to sin,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3722.htm" title="3722: ū·lə·ḵap·pêr (Conj-w, Prep-l:: V-Piel-Inf) -- A primitive root; to cover; figuratively, to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel.">to make atonement</a> <a href="/hebrew/5771.htm" title="5771: ‘ā·wōn (N-cs) -- Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity. Or oavown; from avah; perversity, i.e. evil.">for iniquity,</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: ū·lə·hā·ḇî (Conj-w, Prep-l:: V-Hifil-Inf) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">to bring in</a> <a href="/hebrew/5769.htm" title="5769: ‘ō·lā·mîm (N-mp) -- Long duration, antiquity, futurity. ">everlasting</a> <a href="/hebrew/6664.htm" title="6664: ṣe·ḏeq (N-msc) -- Rightness, righteousness. From tsadaq; the right; also equity or prosperity.">righteousness,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2856.htm" title="2856: wə·laḥ·tōm (Conj-w, Prep:: V-Qal-Inf) -- To seal, affix a seal, seal up. A primitive root; to close up; especially to seal.">to seal up</a> <a href="/hebrew/2377.htm" title="2377: ḥā·zō·wn (N-ms) -- Vision. From chazah; a sight, i.e. A dream, revelation, or oracle.">vision</a> <a href="/hebrew/5030.htm" title="5030: wə·nā·ḇî (Conj-w:: N-ms) -- A spokesman, speaker, prophet. From naba'; a prophet or inspired man.">and prophecy,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4886.htm" title="4886: wə·lim·šō·aḥ (Conj-w, Prep-l:: V-Qal-Inf) -- To smear, anoint. A primitive root; to rub with oil, i.e. To anoint; by implication, to consecrate; also to paint.">and to anoint</a> <a href="/hebrew/6944.htm" title="6944: qō·ḏeš (N-msc) -- Apartness, sacredness. From qadash; a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity.">the Most Holy Place.</a> <a href="/hebrew/6944.htm" title="6944: qā·ḏā·šîm (N-mp) -- Apartness, sacredness. From qadash; a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity."></a> 25Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/isaiah/53-4.htm">Isaiah 53:4-6</a> Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. / But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. / We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. <a href="/jeremiah/31-31.htm">Jeremiah 31:31-34</a> Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. / It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. / “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. ... <a href="/matthew/24-15.htm">Matthew 24:15-16</a> So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), / then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. <a href="/hebrews/9-11.htm">Hebrews 9:11-14</a> But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come, He went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made by hands and is not a part of this creation. / He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption. / For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean, ... <a href="/romans/3-21.htm">Romans 3:21-26</a> But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets. / And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction, / for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ... <a href="/isaiah/61-1.htm">Isaiah 61:1-3</a> The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners, / to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn, / to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified. <a href="/luke/4-18.htm">Luke 4:18-21</a> “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, / to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” / Then He rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him, ... <a href="/hebrews/10-10.htm">Hebrews 10:10-14</a> And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. / Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. / But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God. ... <a href="/zechariah/9-9.htm">Zechariah 9:9</a> Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. <a href="/matthew/26-28.htm">Matthew 26:28</a> This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. <a href="/romans/5-6.htm">Romans 5:6-11</a> For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. / Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. / But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ... <a href="/isaiah/9-6.htm">Isaiah 9:6-7</a> For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. / Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this. <a href="/acts/3-18.htm">Acts 3:18-21</a> But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer. / Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away, / that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus, the Christ, who has been appointed for you. ... <a href="/revelation/5-9.htm">Revelation 5:9-10</a> And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. / You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.” <a href="/ezekiel/36-25.htm">Ezekiel 36:25-27</a> I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. / I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. / And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Seventy weeks are determined on your people and on your 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.Seventy weeks.<a href="/daniel/7-9.htm">Daniel 7:9-26</a> I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire… <a href="/leviticus/25-8.htm">Leviticus 25:8</a> And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.<a href="/numbers/14-34.htm">Numbers 14:34</a> After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.<a href="/ezekiel/4-6.htm">Ezekiel 4:6</a> And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.finish.<a href="/matthew/1-21.htm">Matthew 1:21</a> And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.<a href="/1_john/3-8.htm">1 John 3:8</a> He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.and to.<a href="/lamentations/4-22.htm">Lamentations 4:22</a> The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.<a href="/colossians/2-14.htm">Colossians 2:14</a> Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;<a href="/hebrews/9-26.htm">Hebrews 9:26</a> For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.make an end of.<a href="/ezekiel/28-12.htm">Ezekiel 28:12</a> Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.to make.<a href="/leviticus/8-15.htm">Leviticus 8:15</a> And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.<a href="/2_chronicles/29-24.htm">2 Chronicles 29:24</a> And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.<a href="/isaiah/53-10.htm">Isaiah 53:10</a> Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.to bring.<a href="/isaiah/5-16.htm">Isaiah 5:16,8</a> But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/16-9.htm">Anoint</a> <a href="/daniel/9-19.htm">City</a> <a href="/daniel/4-31.htm">Decreed</a> <a href="/daniel/6-14.htm">Determined</a> <a href="/daniel/8-13.htm">Disobedience</a> <a href="/daniel/8-23.htm">End</a> <a href="/daniel/7-27.htm">Everlasting</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-63.htm">Finish</a> <a href="/daniel/9-19.htm">Forgive</a> <a href="/daniel/9-20.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/daniel/9-13.htm">Iniquity</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-9.htm">Prophecy</a> <a href="/daniel/9-2.htm">Prophet</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-17.htm">Reconciliation</a> <a href="/daniel/9-18.htm">Righteousness</a> <a href="/daniel/8-26.htm">Seal</a> <a href="/daniel/9-2.htm">Seventy</a> <a href="/daniel/9-20.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/daniel/9-20.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/daniel/8-23.htm">Transgression</a> <a href="/daniel/9-23.htm">Vision</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-23.htm">Weeks</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/daniel/10-3.htm">Anoint</a> <a href="/daniel/9-26.htm">City</a> <a href="/nahum/2-7.htm">Decreed</a> <a href="/daniel/9-26.htm">Determined</a> <a href="/micah/1-5.htm">Disobedience</a> <a href="/daniel/9-26.htm">End</a> <a href="/daniel/12-2.htm">Everlasting</a> <a href="/zechariah/4-9.htm">Finish</a> <a href="/hosea/14-2.htm">Forgive</a> <a href="/daniel/11-28.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/hosea/4-8.htm">Iniquity</a> <a href="/amos/2-12.htm">Prophecy</a> <a href="/hosea/4-5.htm">Prophet</a> <a href="/romans/5-11.htm">Reconciliation</a> <a href="/daniel/12-3.htm">Righteousness</a> <a href="/daniel/12-4.htm">Seal</a> <a href="/zechariah/1-12.htm">Seventy</a> <a href="/daniel/11-32.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/hosea/4-8.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/amos/4-4.htm">Transgression</a> <a href="/daniel/10-1.htm">Vision</a> <a href="/daniel/9-25.htm">Weeks</a><div class="vheading2">Daniel 9</div>1. <a href="/daniel/9-1.htm">Daniel, considering the time of the captivity,</a> 3. <a href="/daniel/9-3.htm">makes confession of sins,</a> 16. <a href="/daniel/9-16.htm">and prays for the restoration of Jerusalem.</a> 20. <a href="/daniel/9-20.htm">Gabriel informs him of the seventy weeks.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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This period is decreed specifically for the Jewish people and Jerusalem, indicating a divine timeline for significant events in Israel's history. The concept of "weeks" as years is supported by other biblical passages, such as <a href="/genesis/29-27.htm">Genesis 29:27-28</a>, where a "week" refers to a seven-year period. This prophecy is given during the Babylonian exile, a time when the Jewish people were longing for restoration and return to their homeland.to stop their transgression This phrase indicates a divine intervention to halt the rebellion and disobedience of the Jewish people. The transgression refers to the collective sins that led to their exile, including idolatry and failure to uphold the covenant with God. The prophecy suggests a future time when these transgressions will be addressed and rectified, aligning with the themes of repentance and restoration found throughout the prophetic books.to put an end to sin The prophecy foretells a time when sin will be decisively dealt with. This can be seen as a reference to the coming of the Messiah, who, according to Christian belief, provides the ultimate solution to sin through His sacrificial death and resurrection. The end of sin is a theme echoed in the New Testament, particularly in passages like <a href="/hebrews/9-26.htm">Hebrews 9:26</a>, which speaks of Christ appearing to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.to make atonement for iniquity Atonement involves reconciliation between God and humanity, achieved through a sacrificial offering. In the Old Testament, this was symbolized by the Day of Atonement rituals. The prophecy points to a future, ultimate atonement, which Christians believe is fulfilled in Jesus Christ, whose death is seen as the final and complete atonement for humanity's sins, as described in <a href="/romans/3-25.htm">Romans 3:25</a>.to bring in everlasting righteousness This phrase suggests the establishment of a new order characterized by perpetual righteousness. It implies a transformation that goes beyond temporary or partial measures, pointing to the Messianic age when God's kingdom will be fully realized. This is consistent with prophecies in <a href="/isaiah/11-4.htm">Isaiah 11:4-5</a> and <a href="/jeremiah/23-5.htm">Jeremiah 23:5-6</a>, which speak of a righteous reign.to seal up vision and prophecy Sealing up vision and prophecy indicates the fulfillment and completion of prophetic revelations. It suggests that the events described will bring to fruition the promises and predictions given through the prophets. This completion is seen in the New Testament as being realized in Christ, who fulfills the Law and the Prophets (<a href="/matthew/5-17.htm">Matthew 5:17</a>).and to anoint the Most Holy Place The anointing of the Most Holy Place refers to the consecration and sanctification of a sacred space. In the context of the prophecy, it could refer to the future temple or the ultimate sanctification brought about by the Messiah. In Christian theology, this is often interpreted as the anointing of Jesus as the ultimate High Priest and the establishment of a new covenant, as described in <a href="/hebrews/9-11.htm">Hebrews 9:11-12</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/d/daniel.htm">Daniel</a> A prophet and a key figure in the Babylonian exile, known for his faithfulness and visions. 2. <a href="/topical/y/your_people.htm">Your People</a> Refers to the Israelites, God's chosen people, who are in exile during Daniel's time. 3. <a href="/topical/h/holy_city.htm">Holy City</a> Jerusalem, the center of Jewish worship and the location of the temple. 4. <a href="/topical/s/seventy_weeks.htm">Seventy Weeks</a> A prophetic period symbolizing a divinely appointed time for the fulfillment of God's purposes. 5. <a href="/topical/m/most_holy_place.htm">Most Holy Place</a> The innermost part of the temple, symbolizing God's presence and holiness.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/u/understanding_prophetic_timelines.htm">Understanding Prophetic Timelines</a> The "seventy weeks" symbolize God's perfect timing in fulfilling His promises. Believers are encouraged to trust in God's sovereignty over history. <a href="/topical/t/the_end_of_sin.htm">The End of Sin</a> The prophecy speaks of a future where sin is eradicated. Christians are called to live in the light of this hope, pursuing holiness in their daily lives. <a href="/topical/a/atonement_and_redemption.htm">Atonement and Redemption</a> The atonement for iniquity points to Christ's sacrificial work. Believers should embrace the forgiveness offered through Jesus and extend grace to others. <a href="/topical/e/everlasting_righteousness.htm">Everlasting Righteousness</a> This prophecy assures us of a future where righteousness prevails. Christians are to be agents of righteousness, reflecting God's character in the world. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_the_holy_city.htm">The Role of the Holy City</a> Jerusalem's significance in prophecy reminds us of the importance of worship and God's presence. Believers are to prioritize worship and seek God's presence in their lives.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_daniel_9.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Daniel 9</a> <a href="/q/how_do_70_weeks_align_with_history.htm">In Daniel 9:24–27, how can the “seventy weeks” prophecy be harmonized with known historical records and timelines for Jerusalem’s rebuilding? </a> <a href="/q/how_to_verify_daniel_9_predates_its_events.htm">How can we verify that Daniel 9 was written before the events it supposedly predicts, given questions about the book’s authorship and date?</a> <a href="/q/when_was_jesus_crucified.htm">When was Jesus crucified?</a> <a href="/q/what_do_the_70_sevens_in_daniel_9_mean.htm">What do the seventy sevens in Daniel 9 mean?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/daniel/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(24) Seventy weeks.--Great difficulty is experienced in discovering what sort of weeks is intended. <a href="/context/daniel/9-25.htm" title="Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and three score and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.">Daniel 9:25-27</a> are sufficient to show that ordinary weeks cannot be meant. Possibly, also, the language (<a href="/daniel/10-2.htm" title="In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.">Daniel 10:2</a>, margin "weeks of days") implies that "weeks of days" are not intended here. On the other hand, it is remarkable that in <a href="/context/leviticus/25-1.htm" title="And the LORD spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,">Leviticus 25:1-10</a> the word week should not have been used to signify a period of seven years, if year-weeks are implied in this passage. However, it is generally assumed that we must understand the weeks to consist of years and not of days (see Pusey's Daniel, pp. 165, 166), the principle of year-weeks depending upon <a href="/numbers/14-34.htm" title="After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my breach of promise.">Numbers 14:34</a>, <a href="/leviticus/26-34.htm" title="Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and you be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.">Leviticus 26:34</a>, <a href="/ezekiel/4-6.htm" title="And when you have accomplished them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year.">Ezekiel 4:6</a>. The word "week" in itself furnishes a clue to the meaning. It implies a "Heptad," and is not necessarily more definite than the "time" mentioned in <a href="/daniel/7-25.htm" title="And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.">Daniel 7:25</a>. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/daniel/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 24. - 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. The LXX. here differs from the above, "Seventy weeks are determined (ἐκρίθησαν) upon thy people and the city Zion, to make an end of sin, to make unrighteousnesses rare (σπανίσαι), and to wipe out the unrighteous-nesses, and to understand the vision, and to give (appoint) (δοθῆναι) everlasting righteousness, and to end the visions and the prophet, and to rejoice the holy of holies." There seem here to be some instances of doublet: τὰς ἀδικίας σπανίσαι and ἀπαλεῖψαι τὰς ἀδιλίας are different renderings of לְחָתֵם (lehathaym hattaoth), or as it is in the Q'ri, leahthaym hattath (לְחָתֵם חַטָּאוח). Neither of these seems to be the original of the Greek. Schleusner suggests to read σφραγίσαι. Against this is the fact that Paulus Tellensis renders lemaz'or, "to bring to nothing" (<a href="/jeremiah/10-24.htm">Jeremiah 10:24</a>, Peshitta). How Wolf ('Siebzigwochen,' p. 26) can say the LXX. confirms the Massoretic K'thib, is difficult to see. The author of the first rendering of this phrase seems to have read חתת (ha-thath) instead of hatham; the other translator must have read mahah (מָחָה). The phrase, διανοηθῆναι, "to understand the vision," seems a doublet of the clause, "to seal up the vision." There seems to have been in one of the manuscripts used by the LXX. translator a transposition of words; for one of them must have read לְחֻתַן (lehoothan) instead of לְחָבִיא, since he renders δοθῆναι. This is an impossible change, but the mistaking of להחם for להתן is perfectly easy to imagine, if להתם had been written in place of להביא, and it transferred to the place in the Massoretic text occupied by להיי, then we can easily understand להבין. In the last clause the LXX. translator must have read שמח instead of משח, a clearly inferior reading. The impression conveyed to one is that the translators were able to put no intelligible meaning on the passage, and rendered the words successively as nearly as they could without attempting to make them sense. We must admit, however, that the phenomena that cause this impression may be due to corruption of the text. Theodotion renders, "Seventy weeks are determined (συνετμήθησαν) upon thy people and on the holy city, to seal sins and wipe away unrighteousness, and to atone for sin, and to bring the everlasting righteousness, and to seal the vision and the prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies." Theodotion, it will be seen, as the LXX., has "prophet" instead of "prophecy," which certainly is more verbally accurate than our version; he omits "to finish transgression," having instead, "to seal sins." The Peshitta has followed the K'thib and renders, "finish transgressions," and instead of "prophecy" has the "prophets." The text of the Vetus, as preserved to us by Tertullian, is, "Seventy weeks are shortened (breviatae) upon thy people, and upon the holy city, until sin shall grow old, and iniquities be marked (signentur), and righteousnesses rise up, and eternal righteousness be brought in, and that the vision and the prophet should be marked (signetur), and the holy of holies (sanctus sanctorum) be anointed." Jerome renders, "Seventy weeks are shortened (abbreviate sunt)upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to end falsehood (prevarieatio), to end sin, to wipe out iniquity, to bring in the everlasting righteousness, to fulfil the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the holy of holies (sanctus sanctorum)." The Hebrew here is peculiar; the word for "weeks" is in the masculine, which is unexampled elsewhere in the plural. The singular masculine is found, e.g <a href="/genesis/29-27.htm">Genesis 29:27</a>; there is no case of feminine singular. Mr. Galloway ('Shadow on the Sundial,' p. 51) would read שָׁבֻעִים שָׁבֻעִים, and would render, "by weeks it is determined." There seems little evidence for this reading; against a few late manuscripts is the consensus of versions. "Determined" is also a word that occurs only Lore; it is Aramaic, but not common even in that language. It means "to cut off." It may thus refer to these weeks being "cut off" from time generally; hence "determined." It is singular, and its nominative is plural. "To finish" also causes difficulty; so translated, it implies that the word should be written כָלָה; but it is written כָּלָא, which means "to restrain," "to enclose," "to separate off" (Furst). Hence if we translate as it stands, it should be "restrain transgression." "To make an end of" in also "cause transgression to cease" This in a rendering of the Massoretic Q'ri; if the K'thib had been taken, the translation should rather have been "to seal." "Sins:" this word is plural in the K'thib, but singular in the Q'ri. A large number of manuscripts write the word plural; the Greek versions give the plural; the Pe-shista and Vulgate, Aquila and Paulus Tellensis, singular. "The prophecy," it is clearly an it stands "the prophet." Jerome is the only one of the versions that takes the word in the sense in which it is taken in our versions. Professor Bevan renders it "prophet" (so Hitzig and Hengstenberg). One is tempted to adopt the reading of Michaelis הזיי חנביא, "the vision of the prophet," which has some manuscript authority (Wolf, 'Siebzigwochen,' p. 15). The overwhelming mass of evidence is in favour of the present consonantal text. Seventy weeks. "Week," while generally a week of days (<a href="/daniel/10-2.htm">Daniel 10:2</a>), was occasionally week of years, as <a href="/genesis/29-27.htm">Genesis 29:27</a>, "fulfil the week of this," i.e. the seven years of service. Among the later Jews this became a recognized mode of reckoning, as in the Book of Jubilees, each jubilee in divided into successive weeks. From what follows it is necessary that the weeks here are sevens of years. "Are determined," as already indicated, means "cut off," not "shortened," which does not seem to be the meaning of the word in any case. "Upon thy people and upon thy holy city." Daniel has been praying long and earnestly for his people; so there would be no inability to see what was meant by "his city and his people." "To finish transgression" is equivalent to "to restrain transgression." Transgression is apt to become bold and imperious; it is a great deal when it is even somewhat "restrained." It is to be noted that, as Daniel's prayer was greatly confession of the sins of the people and prayer for forgiveness, the promises here are largely moral; but still the Messianic period even was not to be expected to be one in which there will be no sin - it is to be restrained. "To make an end of sins" - though "to seal sins" seems the better reading diplomatically it is the K'thib, and that of some of the versions. It is difficult to give the phrase an intelligible meaning. Moreover, the occurrence of חתם so immediately after is against it. Something may be said for מחה, which occurs in a similar connection with תמם that this does in <a href="/lamentations/4-22.htm">Lamentations 4:22</a>. This is the reading of one of the translators in the LXX., ἀπαλεῖψαι - the spirit of lawlessness would be restrained and the past iniquities and their guilt wiped away. "To make reconciliation " - "to make an atonement." The verb used is the technical word, "the offering of an atoning sacrifice." In this sense it occurs some fifty times in Leviticus. This might apply to the renewal of sacrificial offerings in the temple after the fifty years' cessation during the Babylonian captivity, or to the renewal after the shorter cessation under the oppression inflicted on the Jews under Epiphanes. The next clause implies a wider application and a loftier sacrifice. Professor Bevan is right in maintaining that, despite the accents, this clause is to be connected with the next. To bring in everlasting righteousness. This is more than merely the termination of the suit of God against his people (<a href="/isaiah/27-9.htm">Isaiah 27:9</a>). The phrase occurs in <a href="/psalms/119-142.htm">Psalm 119:142</a>, and is applied to the righteousness of God. These two, "atonement for sin" and "the everlasting righteousness," are found in Christ - his atoning death and the righteousness which he brings into the world. It is true that when Daniel heard these words spoken by Gabriel he might not put any very distinct meaning on them - in that he was but like other prophets; the prophets did not know the meaning of their own prophecies. To seal up the vision and prophecy; more correctly, to seal vision and prophet - to set to them the seal of fulfilment (von Lengerke, Hitzig, Bevan). This does not refer to Jeremiah, because his prophecy referred merely to the return from Babylon, and this refers to a period which is to continue long after that. Jeremiah's prophecy was about to be verified. This new prophecy required four hundred and ninety years ere it received its verification. Some event to happen nearly half a millennium after Daniel is to prove the prophecy God has given him to be true. And to anoint the Most Holy. This phrase, קָדָשִׁים קֹרֶשׁ (qodesh qodasheem), is used some forty times in Scripture, but almost always of things, as the altar and the innermost sanctuary (Bevan, 155). Hengstenberg ('Christ.,' 3:119) points out that the phrase for "sanctuary" is "קֹדֶשׁ הַקּ, with the article. He appeals to <a href="/1_chronicles/23-13.htm">1 Chronicles 23:13</a> as a case where, without the article, the phrase applies to an individual, וַוִּבַּ דֵל אַחֲרֹן לְהִקְדִישׁו קיי קיי (vayibba-dayl Aheron leheqdeesho qodesh qadasheem), "And he separated Aaron to sanctify him as a holy of holies." This seems almost the necessary translation, despite the versions; for the prenominal suffix must be the object, and "holy of holies" must be in apposition to it. The act of anointing as a sign of consecration, though applied to the tabernacle (<a href="/exodus/30-26.htm">Exodus 30:26</a>; <a href="/exodus/40-9.htm">Exodus 40:9</a>), to the altar (<a href="/exodus/40-10.htm">Exodus 40:10</a>), the laver (<a href="/exodus/40-11.htm">Exodus 40:11</a>), is never applied to the holy of holies. It is applied most frequently to persons; as to Aaron (<a href="/exodus/40-13.htm">Exodus 40:13</a>), to Saul (<a href="/1_samuel/10-1.htm">1 Samuel 10:1</a>), to David (<a href="/1_samuel/16-3.htm">1 Samuel 16:3</a>). The words of Gabriel thus point forward to a time when all iniquity shall be restrained, sin atoned for, and a priest anointed. <a href="/commentaries/daniel/9-24.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Seventy שִׁבְעִ֜ים (šiḇ·‘îm) Number - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7657.htm">Strong's 7657: </a> Seventy (a cardinal number) weeks שָׁבֻעִ֨ים (šā·ḇu·‘îm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7620.htm">Strong's 7620: </a> A period of seven (days, years), heptad, week are decreed נֶחְתַּ֥ךְ (neḥ·taḵ) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2852.htm">Strong's 2852: </a> To cut off, to decree for עַֽל־ (‘al-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against your people עַמְּךָ֣ ׀ (‘am·mə·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5971.htm">Strong's 5971: </a> A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock and your holy קָדְשֶׁ֗ךָ (qāḏ·še·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6944.htm">Strong's 6944: </a> A sacred place, thing, sanctity city עִ֣יר (‘îr) Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5892.htm">Strong's 5892: </a> Excitement to stop their transgression, הַפֶּ֜שַׁע (hap·pe·ša‘) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6588.htm">Strong's 6588: </a> Transgression to put an end to sin, חַטָּאת֙ (ḥaṭ·ṭāṯ) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2403.htm">Strong's 2403: </a> An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender to make atonement וּלְכַפֵּ֣ר (ū·lə·ḵap·pêr) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3722.htm">Strong's 3722: </a> To cover, to expiate, condone, to placate, cancel for iniquity, עָוֺ֔ן (‘ā·wōn) Noun - common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5771.htm">Strong's 5771: </a> Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity to bring in וּלְהָבִ֖יא (ū·lə·hā·ḇî) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> To come in, come, go in, go everlasting עֹֽלָמִ֑ים (‘ō·lā·mîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5769.htm">Strong's 5769: </a> Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always righteousness, צֶ֣דֶק (ṣe·ḏeq) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6664.htm">Strong's 6664: </a> The right, equity, prosperity to seal up וּלְהָתֵ֤ם (ū·lə·hā·ṯêm) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2856.htm">Strong's 2856: </a> To seal, affix a seal, seal up vision חָז֣וֹן (ḥā·zō·wn) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2377.htm">Strong's 2377: </a> A sight, a dream, revelation, oracle and prophecy, וְנָבִ֔יא (wə·nā·ḇî) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5030.htm">Strong's 5030: </a> A spokesman, speaker, prophet and to anoint וְלִמְשֹׁ֖חַ (wə·lim·šō·aḥ) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4886.htm">Strong's 4886: </a> To rub with oil, to anoint, to consecrate, to paint the Most Holy Place. קֹ֥דֶשׁ (qō·ḏeš) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6944.htm">Strong's 6944: </a> A sacred place, thing, sanctity <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/daniel/9-24.htm">Daniel 9:24 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/daniel/9-24.htm">Daniel 9:24 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/daniel/9-24.htm">Daniel 9:24 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/daniel/9-24.htm">Daniel 9:24 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/daniel/9-24.htm">Daniel 9:24 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/daniel/9-24.htm">Daniel 9:24 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/daniel/9-24.htm">Daniel 9:24 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/daniel/9-24.htm">Daniel 9:24 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/daniel/9-24.htm">Daniel 9:24 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/daniel/9-24.htm">Daniel 9:24 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/daniel/9-24.htm">OT Prophets: Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people (Dan. 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