Daniel 9:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

Understood

To jeremiah

Zechariah 7:5

The desolations

General references

Jeremiah 28:12

Bible References

Understood

After I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision I sought to understand it. Behold, there appeared before me a man standing.

Your laws are my delight and counsel.

When you see the disgusting abomination of desolation (unclean thing) spoken about through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that reads understand),

When you see the unclean thing that makes desolation standing where he ought not (let the reader use discernment), then let them that are in Judea flee to the mountains.

The eunuch asked Philip: Please tell me of whom is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?

Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.

Concerning this salvation the prophets inquired and searched diligently! They prophesied about the grace that should come to you:

We have the word of prophecy made sure (steadfast) (firm)! You do well that you pay attention [to God's Word] as you would to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the daystar rises, in your hearts.

Happy is he who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and obey the things written in it: for the time is near.

To jeremiah

This fulfilled the word of Jehovah that was spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept Sabbath until seventy years were complete.

This whole land will be ruined and become a wasteland. These nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.'

All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until Babylon is defeated. Then many nations and great kings will make him their slave.

This is what Jehovah says: 'When Babylon's seventy years are over I will come to you. I will keep my promise to you and bring you back to this place.

Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying: 'For the past seventy years did you fast for me when you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months?

The desolations

Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

([Psalm of Asaph]) O God, the nations have invaded the land that belongs to you. They have dishonored (defiled) your holy temple. They have left Jerusalem in ruins.

Then I said: How long, O Jehovah? And He answered: Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, until the houses are deserted and the land is utterly desolate.

The ruined city lies desolate. The entrance to every house is barred and none may enter.

Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is a wasteland.

I will cause the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem. The land will become a ruin.

Jerusalem and the cities of Judah as well as its kings and officials drank from it. When they drank from it, they became wastelands and ruins, something ridiculed and cursed, until today.

If you continue to disobey I will do to this Temple what I did to Shiloh, and all the nations of the world will use the name of this city as a curse.''

She sits alone. She was a town full of people! Once great among the nations she has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced labor!

It is your fault that Zion will be plowed like a field. Jerusalem will become heaps of ruin, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

General references

Some time after this Jehovah told me: