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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 9 - Introduction

* Daniel considers the time of the captivity. (1-3) His confession of sin, and prayer. (4-19) The revelation concerning the coming of the Messiah. (20-27)

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See also Daniel 9 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Analysis of the Chapter This chapter is properly divided into three parts, or comprises three things: I. The inquiry of Daniel into the time that the desolations of Jerusalem were to continue, and hi...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DANIEL 9. This is one of the most puzzling Chapter s in the Bible, and no little ingenuity has been expended upon its interpretation. Jeremiah had spoken of a punishment which was to befall the king o...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    THE PROPHECY OF THE SEVENTY WEEKS In the first year of -Darius the Mede," Daniel, considering that the 70 years of desolation prophesied by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 25:11; cf. Jeremiah 25:12_; Jeremiah 29:...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _DANIEL, CONSIDERING THE TIME OF THE CAPTIVITY, MAKETH CONFESSION OF SINS, AND PRAYETH FOR THE RESTORATION OF JERUSALEM. GABRIEL INFORMETH HIM OF THE SEVENTY WEEKS._ _Before Christ 538._ THIS chapte...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    SPECIAL STUDY THREE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION In response to his prayer, Gabriel announces to Daniel that a period of seventy sevensthe exact length of the seven is not statedin fact, seventy of them...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 (c-0) (The title of this book, 'Daniel'), Meaning, '*God ( _ El_ ) is judge.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    EXCURSUS F: DANIEL’S PRAYER (DANIEL 9). The resemblance between Daniel’s prayer and those recorded in the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Baruch will appear more distinctly from the following table: —...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO DANIEL 9 This chapter contains a prayer of Daniel, and the answer to it. The time, occasion, and manner of his prayer, or circumstances of it, are observed, Daniel 9:1, the parts of i...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 9 THE VISION OF THE SEVENTY SEVENS. Daniel prays over the situation of Jerusalem and passionately declares the undeserving of Israel and expresses his hope in the mercy and forgiveness of God...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    APPENDIX IN relation to the prediction in Daniel 7:11, regarding the destruction by fire of the body of the Beast or fourth universal empire, that immediately preceding the kingdom of the Son of Man,...

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