Daniel 10:2

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.

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.

Berean Standard Bible
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full 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;

Contextual Overview

¹ In the third year of the reign of King Cyrus of Persia, a message was made plain to Daniel, whose Babylonian name was Belteshazzar. The message was true. It dealt with a big war. He understood the message, the understanding coming by revelation: ²"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. ⁴"On the twenty-fourth day of the first month I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris. I looked up and to my surprise saw a man dressed in linen with a belt of pure gold around his waist. His body was hard and glistening, as if sculpted from a precious stone, his face radiant, his eyes bright and penetrating like torches, his arms and feet glistening like polished bronze, and his voice, deep and resonant, sounded like a huge choir of voices. ⁷"I, Daniel, was the only one to see this. The men who were with me, although they didn't see it, were overcome with fear and ran off and hid, fearing the worst. Left alone after the appearance, abandoned by my friends, I went weak in the knees, the blood drained from my face. ⁹"I heard his voice. At the sound of it I fainted, fell flat on the ground, face in the dirt. A hand touched me and pulled me to my hands and knees.

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 10:7
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, Dedan.

Genesis 10:21
Shem, the older brother of Japheth, also had sons. Shem was ancestor to all the children of Eber.

Ezekiel 27:19
"‘Danites and Greeks from Uzal traded with you, using wrought iron, cinnamon, and spices.

Ezekiel 39:1
"Son of man, prophesy against Gog. Say, ‘A Message of God , the Master: I'm against you, Gog, head of Meshech and Tubal. I'm going to turn you around and drag you out, drag you out of the far north and down on the mountains of Israel. Then I'll knock your bow out of your left hand and your arrows from your right hand. On the mountains of Israel you'll be slaughtered, you and all your troops and the people with you. I'll serve you up as a meal to carrion birds and scavenging animals. You'll be killed in the open field. I've given my word. Decree of God , the Master.'

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.