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Myles Coverdale Bible

Daniel 10:2

At the same tyme, I Daniel mourned for the space of thre wekes,

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.
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.
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 thirde yeare of kinge Cirus of Persia, there was shewed vnto Daniel (otherwise called Balthasar) a matter, yee a true matter, but it is yet a longe tyme vnto it. He vnderstode the matter well, and perceaued what the vision was. 2 At the same tyme, I Daniel mourned for the space of thre wekes, 3 so that I had no lust to eate bred: as for flesh and wyne, there came none within my mouth: No, I dyd not ones anoynte my self, till the whole thre wekes were out. 4 Vpon the xxiiij. daye of the first moneth, I was by the greate floude, called Tigris: 5 I lift vp myne eyes, and loked: and beholde, a man clothed in lynnynge, whose loynes were gyrded vp with fyne golde of Araby: 6 his body was like the Chrisolite stone, his face (to loke vpon) was like lightenynge, his eyes as the flame of fyre, his armes and fete were like fayre glisteringe metall, but the voyce of his wordes was like ye voyce of a multitude. 7 I Daniel alone sawe this vision, the men that were with me, sawe it not: but a greate fearfulnesse fell vpon them, so that they fled awaye, and hyd them selues. 8 I was left there my self alone, and sawe this greate vision, so longe til there remayned nomore strength within me: Yee I lost my coloure clene, I waisted awaye, and my strength was gone. 9 Yet herde I the voyce of his wordes: & as soone as I herde it, fayntnesse came vpon me, and I fell downe flat to the grounde vpon my face.

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
Of these are deuided the Iles of ye Heithen in their countrees, euery one after his speach, kynred and people.
Genesis 10:7
The children of Chus are these: Seba, Heuila Sabtha, Reyma and Sabthecha. The children of Reyma are these: Sheba and Deda.
Genesis 10:12
and Ressen betwene Ninyne & Calah: This is a greate cite.
Genesis 10:14
Pathrusim & Casluhim, from whence came the Philistynes and Capthorims.
Genesis 10:21
And Sem which is ye father of all the children of Eber, & the elder brother of Iaphet, begat childre also.
Isaiah 66:19
Vnto them shal I geue a toke, and sende certayne of the (that be delyuered) amonge the Gentiles: in to Celicia, Africa and Lidia (where men can handle bowes) into Italie also and Grekelonde. The Iles farre of, that haue not herde speake of me, & haue not sene my glory: shal preach my prayse amonge the Gentiles,
Ezekiel 27:7
Thy sale was of whyte small nedle worke out off the londe of Egipte, to hage vpo thy mast: & thy hanginges of yalow sylcke & purple, out of ye Iles of Elisa.
Ezekiel 27:19
Dan, Iauan, and Meusal haue brought vnto thy markettes, yron redy made, with Casia and Calamus, acordinge to thyne occupienge.
Ezekiel 38:6
Gomer, and all his hoostes: the house of Thogorma out of the north quarters, and all his hoostes, yee and moch people with the.
Ezekiel 38:15
and shalt come from thy place, out of the north partes: thou and moch people wt the, which ryde vpon horses, wherof there is a greate multitude and an innumerable sorte.

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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