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Contemporary English Version

Daniel 10:2

Daniel wrote: For three weeks I was in sorrow.

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

1 In the third year of Cyrus the king of Persia, a message came to Daniel from God, and it was explained in a vision. The message was about a horrible war, and it was true. 2 Daniel wrote: For three weeks I was in sorrow. 3 I ate no fancy food or meat, I drank no wine, and I put no olive oil on my face or hair. 4 Then, on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, I was standing on the banks of the great Tigris River, 5 when I looked up and saw someone dressed in linen and wearing a solid gold belt. 6 His body was like a precious stone, his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming fires, his arms and legs like polished bronze, and his voice like the roar of a crowd. 7 Although the people who were with me did not see the vision, they became so frightened that they scattered and hid. 8 Only I saw this great vision. I became weak and pale, 9 and at the sound of his voice, I fell facedown in a deep sleep.

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 10:21
Shem's descendants had their own languages, tribes, and land. He was the older brother of Japheth and the ancestor of the tribes of Eber. Shem was the ancestor of Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. Aram was the ancestor of Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. Arpachshad was the father of Shelah and the grandfather of Eber, whose first son was named Peleg, because it was during his time that tribes divided up the earth. Eber's second son was Joktan. Joktan was the ancestor of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. Their land reached from Mesha in the direction of Sephar, the hill country in the east.
Isaiah 66:19
by proving what I can do. I will send the survivors to Tarshish, Pul, Lud, Meshech, Tubal, Javan, and to the distant islands. I will send them to announce my wonderful glory to nations that have never heard about me.
Ezekiel 27:7
The builders used fancy linen from Egypt for your sails, so everyone could see you. Blue and purple cloth from Cyprus was used to shade your deck.
Ezekiel 27:19
Vedan and Javan near Uzal traded you iron and spices.
Ezekiel 38:6
as well as from Gomer and Beth-Togarmah in the north. Your army is enormous!
Ezekiel 38:15
you will lead your powerful cavalry from your kingdom in the north.
Ezekiel 39:1
The Lord said: Ezekiel, son of man, condemn Gog and tell him: You are the ruler of Meshech and Tubal, but I, the Lord , am your enemy!
Revelation 20:8
He will fool the countries of Gog and Magog, which are at the far ends of the earth, and their people will follow him into battle. They will have as many followers as there are grains of sand along the beach,

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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