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Contemporary English Version

Daniel 12:12

God will bless everyone who patiently waits until one thousand three hundred thirty-five days have gone by.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Day;   Waiting;   Scofield Reference Index - Days;   The Topic Concordance - Blessings;   Last Days;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Day;   Waiting upon God;   Years;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Apocalyptic literature;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Beatitudes;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Creation;   Israel;   Number;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Daniel, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Apocrypha;   Brook;   Magi;   Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Day;   Kingdom of christ of heaven;   Kingdom of god;   Kingdom of heaven;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Millenarians;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bel and the Dragon (2);   Daniel, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Happy is the one who waits for and reaches 1,335 days.
Hebrew Names Version
Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
King James Version
Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
English Standard Version
Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days.
New American Standard Bible
"Blessed is the one who is patient and attains to the 1,335 days!
New Century Version
Those who wait for the end of the 1,335 days will be happy.
Amplified Bible
"How blessed [happy, fortunate, spiritually prosperous] and beloved is he who waits expectantly [enduring without wavering for the period of tribulation] and comes to the 1,335 days!
Geneva Bible (1587)
Blessed is he that waiteth & commeth to the thousand, three hundreth & fiue & thirtie daies.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"How blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days!
Berean Standard Bible
Blessed is he who waits and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.
Complete Jewish Bible
How blessed will be anyone who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days.
Darby Translation
Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days!
Easy-to-Read Version
The one who waits for and comes to the end of the 1335 days will be very happy.
George Lamsa Translation
Blessed is he who waits and reaches to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
Good News Translation
Happy are those who remain faithful until 1,335 days are over!
Lexham English Bible
Happy is the one who is persevering, and attains to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
Literal Translation
Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand, three hundred and thirty five days.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O well is him, that waiteth, & commeth to the thousande iij.C. & xxxv.dayes.
American Standard Version
Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
Bible in Basic English
A blessing will be on the man who goes on waiting, and comes to the thousand, three hundred and thirty-five days.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Happy is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
King James Version (1611)
Blessed is he that waiteth, and commeth to the thousand, three hundred and fiue and thirtie dayes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Blessed is he that wayteth and commeth to the thousande, three hundred, and fiue and thirtie dayes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
English Revised Version
Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
World English Bible
Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He is blessid, that abideth, and cometh fulli, til a thousynde daies thre hundrid and fyue and thritti.
Update Bible Version
Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
Webster's Bible Translation
Blessed [is] he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
New English Translation
Blessed is the one who waits and attains to the 1,335 days.
New King James Version
Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
New Living Translation
And blessed are those who wait and remain until the end of the 1,335 days!
New Life Bible
How happy is he who waits and comes to the end of the 1,335 days!
New Revised Standard
Happy are those who persevere and attain the thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Happy! is he that waiteth, and attaineth to one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed is he that waitedth, and cometh unto a thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
Revised Standard Version
Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
Young's Literal Translation
O the blessedness of him who is waiting earnestly, and doth come to the days, a thousand, three hundred, thirty and five.
THE MESSAGE
"Blessed are those who patiently make it through the 1,335 days.

Contextual Overview

5 Daniel wrote: I looked around and saw two other people—one on this side of the river and one on the other side. 6 The angel who had spoken to me was dressed in linen and was standing upstream from them. So one of the two beside the river asked him, "How long before these amazing things happen?" 7 The angel then raised both hands toward heaven and said, "In the name of the God who lives forever, I solemnly promise that it will be a time, two times, and half a time. Everything will be over, when the suffering of God's holy people comes to an end." 8 I heard what the angel said, but I didn't understand. So I asked, "Sir, how will it all end?" The angel in my vision then replied: 9 Daniel, go about your business, because the meaning of this message will remain secret until the end of time. 10 Many people will have their hearts and lives made pure and clean, but those who are evil will keep on being evil and never understand. Only the wise will understand. 11 There will be one thousand two hundred ninety days from the time that the daily sacrifices are stopped, until someone sets up the "Horrible Thing" that causes destruction. 12 God will bless everyone who patiently waits until one thousand three hundred thirty-five days have gone by. 13 So, Daniel, be faithful until the end! You will rest, and at the end of time, you will rise from death to receive your reward.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Romans 11:15, Revelation 20:4

Reciprocal: Psalms 102:13 - the set Ezekiel 4:6 - each day for a year Daniel 7:25 - a time Daniel 12:7 - that it Matthew 10:22 - but Mark 13:13 - but John 13:7 - What Revelation 1:3 - Blessed Revelation 11:2 - forty Revelation 15:1 - is filled Revelation 20:6 - Blessed Revelation 22:14 - Blessed

Cross-References

Genesis 12:8
Abram traveled to the hill country east of Bethel and camped between Bethel and Ai, where he built another altar and worshiped the Lord .
Genesis 12:10
The crops failed, and there was no food anywhere in the land. So Abram and his wife Sarai went to live in Egypt for a while. But just before they got there, he said, "Sarai, you are really beautiful!
Genesis 20:11
Abraham answered: I did it because I didn't think any of you respected God, and I was sure that someone would kill me to get my wife.
Genesis 26:7
with his beautiful wife Rebekah. He was afraid that someone might kill him to get her, and so he told everyone that Rebekah was his sister.
1 Samuel 27:1
but he thought to himself, "One of these days, Saul is going to kill me. The only way to escape from him is to go to Philistia. Then I'll be outside of Israel, and Saul will give up trying to catch me."
Proverbs 29:25
Don't fall into the trap of being a coward— trust the Lord , and you will be safe.
Matthew 10:28
Don't be afraid of people. They can kill you, but they cannot harm your soul. Instead, you should fear God who can destroy both your body and your soul in hell.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the one thousand three hundred five and thirty days. Which is an addition of forty five days or years more, beginning at the end of one thousand two hundred and ninety, and make up this sum; during which time the vials will be poured out upon all the antichristian states, and the Turkish empire be destroyed, and all the enemies of Christ and his church removed, and clear way made for the setting up of his kingdom in the world in a more visible and glorious manner; and therefore happy is the man that will be found waiting for these times, and live to enjoy them. There are various ways taken in the computation and application of these one thousand three hundred and thirty five days by Jews and Christians. Lipman p the Jew makes them to be the same with "time", and "times", and "half a time", Daniel 12:7, "time" he supposes, designs the space of four hundred and eighty years, from the Israelites going out of Egypt to the building of the first temple; times the space of four hundred and ten years which is as long as that temple stood; and "half a time" half of these two spaces, that is, four hundred and forty five years; all which make up one thousand three hundred and thirty five; but strange it is that time should signify a larger space than "times". Much more ingenious is the computation of Jacchiades on the text, who makes the account to describe the space of time from the days of Daniel to the end of the world. He supposes there were three thousand three hundred and ninety one years, from the beginning of the world to Daniel; he then takes and joins the one thousand two hundred and ninety days in the preceding verse, which he understands of years with the one thousand three hundred and thirty five days or years in this, which make together two thousand six hundred and twenty five; and, added to the above, the whole is six thousand and sixteen years; which agrees with the opinion of Elias, in the Talmud q, that the world shall stand six thousand years. Many Christian interpreters r apply it to the times of Antiochus; and reckon them thus, understanding them of days; and not years; from the time of his taking away the daily sacrifice, to the restoration of it by Judas Maccabaeus, were three years and a half and some days, in all one thousand two hundred and ninety, as in the preceding verse; during which time the temple was profaned by idolatrous worship, the altar demolished, and the daily sacrifice ceased, and was a time of great distress with the Jews; and which, though greatly alleviated by the success of Judas, yet their calamities were not over until the death of Antiochus, which happened forty five days after; and these, added to the above number, make one thousand three hundred and thirty five days; at the close of which it was happy times with them, being delivered from so cruel and powerful an enemy; and therefore blessed were they that waited and came to this time. This passage Mr. Brightman applies to the Turkish empire; and thinks that time, and times, and half a time; Daniel 12:7, measure the space of the power of that empire; "time" signifying one hundred years; "times" two hundred years; "half a time", fifty years; in all three hundred and fifty years; which added to one thousand three hundred, when that empire began, the date ends in one thousand six hundred and fifty, when he supposes, it would begin to decline; to which, if you add forty five days or years, as here, it will bring it down to one thousand six hundred and ninety five, when he thought it would be utterly extinct; but time has shown this to be a mistake. Mr. Mede s thinks these numbers are to be reckoned from the profanation of the temple by Antiochus; and that the first number, one thousand two hundred and ninety, ended in the year of Christ one thousand one hundred and twenty three, when antichrist was come to his height, and was discerned by many to be the person that was prophesied of as such; and the latter number, one thousand three hundred and thirty five ended in the year of Christ one thousand one hundred and sixty eight, when the Waldenses, Albigenses, and others separated from the church of Rome as antichristian, upon which violent persecutions were raised upon them: but then not happy, but miserable times, followed on these; unless this blessedness spoken of is to be applied to the martyrs that died for the sake of Christ, as in Revelation 14:13. Another learned man t was of opinion that these numbers are to be counted from the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian, A.D. 71, from whence the first number fell on the year 1361, at which time the school at Prague was founded by Charles king of Bohemia, and the errors and tyranny of antichrist began to be openly opposed by the same; and the second number ended in the year 1406, when the light of the Gospel broke out more clearly; so that the angel here pronounces those blessed who overlived these first seeds of the Gospel being brought to light; but something of great importance and cause of more joy, is here intended. Wherefore, upon the whole, it seems best to interpret these numbers as at first, of the date of the reign of antichrist, and as showing the full and certain end of it; when there will be blessed times, halcyon days indeed!

p Nizzachon, No. 332. q T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 97. 1. r Broughton in loc. L'Empereur, Not. in Jacchiad. in loc. Huls. Theolog. Jud. par. 1. p. 77, 78. s Works, B. 3. p. 720. t Henr. Wolphius lib. de tempore apud Brightman in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Blessed is he that waiteth - This indicates a patient expectation of an event that was to occur, and the happy state of him who would reach it. The angel refers to another period different from the “time, and times, and an half,” and different also from the twelve hundred and ninety days. He speaks of this as the consummation - as the desirable time; and pronounces him blessed who shall be permitted to see it. The idea here is, that of one looking out for this as a happy period, and that he would be regarded as a happy man who should live in that age.

And cometh to - literally, “touches.” That is, whose life would reach to that time; or who would not be cut off before that period.

The thousand three hundred and five and thirty days - The article is not used in the original, and its insertion here seems to make the period more distinct and definite than it is necessarily in the Hebrew. There is much apparent abruptness in all these expressions; and what the angel says in these closing and additional communications has much the appearance of a fragmentary character - of hints, or detached and unexplained thoughts thrown out on which he was not disposed to enlarge, and which, for some reason, he was not inclined to explain. In respect to this period of 1335 days, it seems to stand by itself. Nothing is said of the time when it would occur; no intimation is given of its commencement, as in the former cases - the terminus a quo; and nothing is said of its characteristics further than that he would be blessed who should be permitted to see it - implying that it would be, on some accounts, a happy period.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Daniel 12:12. Blessed is he that waiteth — He who implicitly depends on God, expecting, as his truth cannot fail, that these predictions shall be accomplished in due time.

And cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. — This is seventy-five days more than what is included in the three years and a half, or the time, times, and a half in the seventh verse; and as we have met with so many instances of prophetical days and years, this undoubtedly is another instance; and as a day stands for a year, this must mean a period of one thousand three hundred and thirty-five years, which period is to bring all these wonders to an end, Daniel 12:6. But we are left totally in the dark relative to the time from which these one thousand three hundred and thirty-five years are to be reckoned. If, however, we reckon them from the above epoch, A.D. 612, when Mohammedanism arose, they lead us to A.D. 1947, when the fullness of the Gentiles shall be brought in; and thus a final closure of vision and prophecy be made, as then all the great events relative to the salvation of men shall have taken place. Wars and contentions will probably then cease over the whole world; Jews and Gentiles become one fold, under one Shepherd and Bishop of souls; and the triune God be properly worshipped and glorified, from generation to generation, over the face of the whole earth. But all these conjectures may be founded in darkness. We have not chronological data; and "the times and seasons God has reserved in his own power."


 
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