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Daniel 10:2

In those days I, Daniel, mourned the days of 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.
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:
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, king of the Persians, a word was revealed to Daniel, surnamed Baltassar, and a true word, and great strength: and he understood the word: for there is need of understanding in a vision. 2 In those days I, Daniel, mourned the days of three weeks. 3 I ate no desirable bread, and neither flesh, nor wine, entered into my mouth, neither was I anointed with ointment: till the days of three weeks were accomplished. 4 And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, I was by the great river, which is the Tigris. 5 And I lifted up my eyes, and I saw: and behold a man clothed in linen, and his loins were girded with the finest gold: 6 And his body was like the chrysolite, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as a burning lamp: and his arms, and all downward even to the feet, like in appearance to glittering brass: and the voice of his word like the voice of a multitude. 7 And I, Daniel alone, saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw it not: but an exceeding great terror fell upon them, and they fled away, and hid themselves. 8 And I, being left alone, saw this great vision: and there remained no strength in me, and the appearance of my countenance was changed in me, and I fainted away, and retained no strength. 9 And I heard the voice of his words: and when I heard I lay in a consternation upon my face, and my face was close to the ground.

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
By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.
Genesis 10:7
And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabatacha. The sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.
Genesis 10:12
Resen also between Ninive and Chale: this is the great city.
Genesis 10:14
And Phetrusim, and Chasluim; of whom came forth the Philistines, and the Capthorim.
Genesis 10:21
Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.
Isaiah 66:19
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send of them that shall be saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Africa, and Lydia them that draw the bow: into Italy, and Greece, to the islands afar off, to them that have not heard of me, and have not seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory to the Gentiles:
Ezekiel 27:7
Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to be spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were made thy covering.
Ezekiel 27:19
Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.
Ezekiel 38:6
Gomer, and all his bands, the house of Thogorma, the northern parts and all his strength, and many peoples with thee.
Ezekiel 38:15
And thou shalt come out of thy place from the northern parts, thou and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army.

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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