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Good News Translation

Daniel 10:2

At that time I was mourning for three 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.
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.
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 that Cyrus was emperor of Persia, a message was revealed to Daniel, who is also called Belteshazzar. The message was true but extremely hard to understand. It was explained to him in a vision. 2 At that time I was mourning for three weeks. 3 I did not eat any rich food or any meat, drink any wine, or comb my hair until the three weeks were past. 4 On the twenty-fourth day of the first month of the year I was standing on the bank of the mighty Tigris River. 5 I looked up and saw someone who was wearing linen clothes and a belt of fine gold. 6 His body shone like a jewel. His face was as bright as a flash of lightning, and his eyes blazed like fire. His arms and legs shone like polished bronze, and his voice sounded like the roar of a great crowd. 7 I was the only one who saw the vision. Those who were with me did not see anything, but they were terrified and ran and hid. 8 I was left there alone, watching this amazing vision. I had no strength left, and my face was so changed that no one could have recognized me. 9 When I heard his voice, I fell to the ground unconscious and lay there face downward.

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
they were the ancestors of the people who live along the coast and on the islands. These are the descendants of Japheth, living in their different tribes and countries, each group speaking its own language.
Genesis 10:7
The descendants of Cush were the people of Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were the people of Sheba and Dedan.
Genesis 10:12
and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
Genesis 10:14
Pathrus, Casluh, and of Crete, from whom the Philistines are descended.
Genesis 10:21
Shem, the older brother of Japheth, was the ancestor of all the Hebrews.
Isaiah 66:19
and will know that I am the one who punishes them. "But I will spare some of them and send them to the nations and the distant lands that have not heard of my fame or seen my greatness and power: to Spain, Libya, and Lydia, with its skilled archers, and to Tubal and Greece. Among these nations they will proclaim my greatness.
Ezekiel 27:7
Your sails were made of linen, Embroidered linen from Egypt, Easily recognized from afar. Your awnings were made of finest cloth, Of purple from the island of Cyprus.
Ezekiel 38:6
All the fighting men of the lands of Gomer and Beth Togarmah in the north are with him, and so are men from many other nations.
Ezekiel 38:15
to come from your place in the far north, leading a large, powerful army of soldiers from many nations, all of them on horseback.
Ezekiel 39:1
The Sovereign Lord said, "Mortal man, denounce Gog, the chief ruler of the nations of Meshech and Tubal, and tell him that I am his enemy.

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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