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Primary Verses¶
Daniel 9:24 (The Six Purposes)¶
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.
Daniel 9:25¶
Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Daniel 9:26¶
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Daniel 9:27¶
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Full Chapter Context: Daniel 9 (Prayer + Gabriel's Response)¶
Daniel's Prayer (9:4-19)¶
Dan 9:4 — And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
Dan 9:5 — We have sinned [chatanu], and have committed iniquity [avinu], and have done wickedly [hirshanu], and have rebelled [maradnu], even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
Dan 9:7 — O Lord, righteousness [tsedaqah] belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass [ma'al] that they have trespassed against thee.
Dan 9:9 — To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
Dan 9:11 — Yea, all Israel have transgressed [avru] thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned [chatanu] against him.
Dan 9:13 — As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities [avonot], and understand thy truth [emeth].
Dan 9:14 — Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous [tsaddiyq] in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
Dan 9:16 — O Lord, according to all thy righteousness [tsidqot], I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins [chatot], and for the iniquities [avonot] of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
Dan 9:18 — O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations [shomemot], and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses [tsidqot], but for thy great mercies.
Dan 9:19 — O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive [selach]; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
Gabriel's Arrival (9:20-23)¶
Dan 9:20-21 — And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel... even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
Dan 9:22-23 — And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding. At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision [mar'eh].
Leviticus 16 (Day of Atonement — Full Chapter)¶
Lev 16:16 — And he shall make an atonement [kaphar] for the holy place [qodesh], because of the uncleanness [tumot] of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions [pish'eihem] in all their sins [chatotam]: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
Lev 16:21 — And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities [avonot] of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions [pish'eihem] in all their sins [chatotam], putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
Lev 16:30 — For on that day shall the priest make an atonement [kaphar] for you, to cleanse [taher] you, that ye may be clean [titharu] from all your sins [chatoteikhem] before the LORD.
Lev 16:33 — And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary [miqdash ha-qodesh], and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.
Lev 16:34 — And this shall be an everlasting [owlam] statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year.
Isaiah 53 (Suffering Servant — Full Chapter)¶
Isa 53:5 — But he was wounded for our transgressions [pesha], he was bruised for our iniquities [avon]: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isa 53:6 — All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity [avon] of us all.
Isa 53:8 — He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off [nigzar, from gazar H1504] out of the land of the living: for the transgression [pesha] of my people was he stricken.
Isa 53:10 — Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin [asham], he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Isa 53:11 — He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous [tsaddiyq] servant justify [yatsdiq, Hiphil of tsadaq] many; for he shall bear their iniquities [avonot].
Isa 53:12 — Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors [posh'im]; and he bare the sin [chet] of many, and made intercession [yaphgia] for the transgressors.
Romans 3:21-26 (Justification — Full Chapter Context)¶
Rom 3:21 — But now the righteousness [dikaiosyne] of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Rom 3:24 — Being justified [dikaioumenoi] freely by his grace through the redemption [apolytrosis] that is in Christ Jesus:
Rom 3:25 — Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation [hilasterion] through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness [dikaiosyne] for the remission [paresis] of sins [hamartema] that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Rom 3:26 — To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just [dikaion], and the justifier [dikaiounta] of him which believeth in Jesus.
Hebrews 9 (Heavenly Sanctuary — Full Chapter)¶
Heb 9:7 — But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
Heb 9:11-12 — But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands... Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Heb 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:21-22 — Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Heb 9:23 — It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified [katharizesthai] with these; but the heavenly things themselves [ta epourania] with better sacrifices [kreittosiv thysiais] than these.
Heb 9:24 — For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Heb 9:25-26 — Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 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.
Heb 9:28 — So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Exodus 40:9-11 (Tabernacle Anointing)¶
Exo 40:9 — And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint [mashach] the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy [qodesh].
Exo 40:10 — And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy [qodesh qodashim].
Exo 40:11 — And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.
Exodus 30:26-29 (Anointing Formula)¶
Exo 30:26-28 — And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense, And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.
Exo 30:29 — And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy [qodesh qodashim]: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
Psalm 119:142 (tsedeq+emeth Bridge)¶
Thy righteousness [tsidqatka, from tsedaqah] is an everlasting righteousness [tsedeq le-olam], and thy law [toratka] is the truth [emeth].
Hebrew parsing: tsidqatka (H6666 + 2ms suffix) + tsedeq (H6664) + le-olam (H5769) + toratka (H8451 + 2ms suffix) + emeth (H571)
Bridge significance: This verse connects Dan 9:24 ("everlasting righteousness" = tsedeq olamim) to Dan 8:12 ("truth" = emeth cast to the ground). God's righteousness IS everlasting; God's law IS truth. The vindication restores both.
Daniel 8:11-14 (Four-fold Attack and Verdict)¶
Dan 8:11 — Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
Dan 8:12 — And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression [pesha], and it cast down the truth [emeth] to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
Dan 8:13 — Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
Dan 8:14 — And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed [nitsdaq, Niphal of tsadaq].
2 Corinthians 5:21 (Righteousness Imputation)¶
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness [dikaiosyne] of God in him.
2 Chronicles 36:21 (490-Year Sabbatical Calculation)¶
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Hebrews 1:9 (Anointing Vocabulary)¶
Thou hast loved righteousness [dikaiosyne], and hated iniquity [anomia]; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed [echrisen, from chrio G5548] thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Cross-Testament Parallels¶
For Daniel 9:24 (OT direction)¶
| Reference | Score | Key Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Jer 25:12 | 0.456 | age, iniquity, seven |
| Dan 9:16 | 0.445 | holiness, iniquity, justice, town |
| Dan 9:26 | 0.441 | holiness, town, week |
| Lev 16:16 | 0.427 | cover, holiness, iniquity, rebellion |
| Exo 30:10 | 0.422 | age, cover, holiness, iniquity |
| Dan 8:13 | 0.420 | holiness, rebellion, vision |
| Exo 34:7 | 0.418 | age, iniquity, rebellion |
| Psa 32:5 | 0.394 | cover, iniquity, rebellion |
For Daniel 9:24 (NT direction)¶
| Reference | Score | Key Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Rom 4:7-8 | 0.329-0.359 | cover, iniquity |
| Rom 5:21 | 0.348 | age, iniquity |
| Rev 5:5 | 0.329 | seal, seven |
| Heb 8:12 | 0.340 | iniquity |
For Leviticus 16:30 (OT direction)¶
| Reference | Score | Key Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Eze 36:33 | 0.501 | clean, iniquity |
| Lev 14:31 | 0.495 | clean, cover, iniquity |
| Psa 51:4 | 0.413 | clean, iniquity |
For Exodus 40:9 (NT direction)¶
| Reference | Score | Key Terms |
|---|---|---|
| 2Pe 3:11 | 0.299 | holy |
| 1Jn 2:20 | 0.292 | (anointing) |
| Rev 15:4 | 0.247 | holy |