Daniel 9:2
ContextNETBible | in the first year of his reign 1 I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books 2 that, according to the word of the LORD 3 disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem 4 were seventy in number. |
XREF | 2Ch 36:21; Ps 74:3-7; Ps 79:1,2; Ps 119:24,99,100; Isa 6:11,12; Isa 24:10-12; Isa 64:10; Jer 7:34; Jer 25:11,12; Jer 25:18; Jer 26:6,18; Jer 27:7; Jer 29:10; La 1:1; Da 8:15,16; Mic 3:12; Zec 7:5; Mt 24:15; Mr 13:14; Ac 8:34; 1Ti 4:13; 2Ti 3:15-17; 1Pe 1:10-12; 2Pe 1:19-21; Re 1:3 |
NET © Notes |
1 tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion. 2 tn The Hebrew text has “books”; the word “sacred” has been added in the translation to clarify that it is Scriptures that are referred to. 3 sn The tetragrammaton (the four Hebrew letters which constitute the divine Name, YHWH) appears eight times in this chapter, and nowhere else in the book of Daniel. 4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4. |