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Daniel 10:2

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fasting;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Time;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fasting;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Daniel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Humility;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Fasting;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fast;   Week;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Daniel;   Daniel, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Daniel, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Magi;   Vision;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fast;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Apocalypse;   Week;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.
Hebrew Names Version
In those days I, Daniyel, was mourning three whole weeks.
King James Version
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
English Standard Version
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks.
New American Standard Bible
In those days, I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks.
New Century Version
At that time I, Daniel, had been very sad for three weeks.
Amplified Bible
In those days I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks.
Geneva Bible (1587)
At the same time I Daniel was in heauines for three weekes of dayes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
In those days, I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks.
Contemporary English Version
Daniel wrote: For three weeks I was in sorrow.
Complete Jewish Bible
At that time I, Dani'el, had been mourning for three whole weeks.
Darby Translation
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks:
Easy-to-Read Version
At that time I, Daniel, was very sad for three weeks.
George Lamsa Translation
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three times seven weeks of days.
Good News Translation
At that time I was mourning for three weeks.
Lexham English Bible
In those days, I, Daniel, I myself was in mourning for three whole weeks.
Literal Translation
In those days, I, Daniel, was mourning three weeks of days.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
At the same tyme, I Daniel mourned for the space of thre wekes,
American Standard Version
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
Bible in Basic English
In those days I, Daniel, gave myself up to grief for three full weeks.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In those days I Daniel was mourning three whole weeks.
King James Version (1611)
In those dayes, I Daniel was mourning three full weekes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
At the same time, I Daniel mourned for the space of three weekes of dayes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
English Revised Version
In those days I Daniel was mourning three whole weeks.
World English Bible
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In tho daies Y, Danyel, mourenyde bi the daies of thre woukis;
Update Bible Version
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
Webster's Bible Translation
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
New English Translation
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three whole weeks.
New King James Version
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks.
New Living Translation
When this vision came to me, I, Daniel, had been in mourning for three whole weeks.
New Life Bible
In those days, I, Daniel, had been full of sorrow for three weeks.
New Revised Standard
At that time I, Daniel, had been mourning for three weeks.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In those days, I, Daniel, was mourning three sevens of days:
Douay-Rheims Bible
In those days I, Daniel, mourned the days of three weeks.
Revised Standard Version
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks.
Young's Literal Translation
`In those days, I, Daniel, have been mourning three weeks of days;
THE MESSAGE
"During those days, I, Daniel, went into mourning over Jerusalem for three weeks. I ate only plain and simple food, no seasoning or meat or wine. I neither bathed nor shaved until the three weeks were up.

Contextual Overview

1In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a message was revealed to Daniel, who was called Belteshazzar. The message was true, and it concerned a great conflict. And the understanding of the message was given to him in a vision. 2In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.3I ate no rich food, no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I did not anoint myself with oil until the three weeks were completed. 4On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris, 5I lifted up my eyes, and behold, there was a certain man dressed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist. 6His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude. 7Only I, Daniel, saw the vision; the men with me did not see it, but a great terror fell upon them, and they ran and hid themselves. 8So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision. No strength remained in me; my face grew deathly pale, and I was powerless. 9I heard the sound of his words, and as I listened, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I Daniel: Ezra 9:4, Ezra 9:5, Nehemiah 1:4, Psalms 42:9, Psalms 43:2, Psalms 137:1-5, Isaiah 66:10, Jeremiah 9:1, Matthew 9:15, Romans 9:2, James 4:9, Revelation 11:5

full weeks: Heb. weeks of days, Daniel 9:24-27

Reciprocal: Leviticus 23:27 - afflict Ecclesiastes 7:3 - is better Isaiah 58:3 - in Daniel 8:1 - me Daniel Daniel 9:3 - with Daniel 9:20 - whiles Daniel 10:12 - from Matthew 6:17 - anoint

Cross-References

Genesis 10:5
From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.
Genesis 10:7
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Genesis 10:12
and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
Genesis 10:14
the Pathrusites, the Casluhites, and the Caphtorites (from whom the Philistines came).
Genesis 10:21
And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.
Isaiah 66:19
I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to Tarshish, Put, and Lud the archers, to Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away, and to the nations who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. So they will proclaim My glory among the nations.
Ezekiel 27:7
Of embroidered fine linen from Egypt, they made your sail, which served as your banner. Of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah they made your awning.
Ezekiel 27:19
and casks of wine from Izal for your wares. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were exchanged for your merchandise.
Ezekiel 38:6
Gomer with all its troops; and Beth-togarmah from the far north with all its troops-many nations with you.
Ezekiel 38:15
And you will come from your place out of the far north-you and many peoples with you, all riding horses-a mighty horde, a huge army.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In those days I Daniel was mourning,.... Either on account of what had been revealed to him in the last vision or prophecy of the seventy weeks; by which it appeared what wickedness the people of the Jews would be guilty of in cutting off the Messiah; and what desolations would come upon their land, city, and temple, for such usage of him: as also because of the present case of his people; many of them continuing in the country of Babylon, when they had liberty to return to their land: or because of the hinderance the Jews met with in rebuilding their city and temple, who had returned thither; of which Daniel had an account, and which caused him to mourn in secret: and so he continued

three full weeks; or, "three weeks of days" c; so called, to distinguish them from weeks of years, mentioned in the preceding chapter.

c שלשה שבעים ימים "tribus hebdomadibus dierum", Munster, Calvin, Tigurine version; "trium hebdomadarum diebus", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, so Junius & Tremellius, Medus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In those days I Daniel was mourning - I was afflicting myself; that is, he had set apart this time as an extraordinary fast. He was sad and troubled. He does not say on what account he was thus troubled, but there can be little doubt that it was on account of his people. This was two years after the order had been given by Cyrus for the restoration of the Hebrew people to their country, but it is not improbable that they met with many embarrassments in their efforts to return, and possibly there may have sprung up in Babylon some difficulties on the subject that greatly affected the mind of Daniel. The difficulties attending such an enterprise as that of restoring a captured people to their country, when the march lay across a vast desert, would at any time have been such as to have made an extraordinary season of prayer and fasting proper.

Three full weeks - Margin, “weeks of days.” Hebrew, “Three sevens of days.” He does not say whether he had designedly set apart that time to be occupied as a season of fasting, or whether he had, under the influence of deep feeling, continued his fast from day to day until it reached that period. Either supposition will accord with the circumstances of the case, and either would have justified such an act at anytime, for it would be undoubtedly proper to designate a time of extraordinary devotion, or, under the influence of deep feeling, of domestic trouble, of national affliction, to continue such religious exercises from day to day.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Daniel 10:2. I-was mourning three full weeks. — The weeks are most probably dated from the time of the termination of the last vision. Calmet proves this by several reasons.


 
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