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Daniel 9:26 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 26. 26And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
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Quick Meaning
The cut-off anointed figure, destroyed city and sanctuary, and coming ruler receive competing historical and later readings.
Seventy sevens are decreed for city, sanctuary, sin, and an anointed title
This verse is one part of that explanation in Daniel 9:24-27. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Daniel 9:24–27
Read Daniel 9:26 with 9:24–27. The cut-off anointed figure, destroyed city and sanctuary, and coming ruler receive competing historical and later readings. The complete unit establishes this movement: Seventy sevens address sin, righteousness, city, sanctuary, anointed figures, covenant, sacrifice, and desolation in a highly disputed segmentation.
Why This Verse Appears Here
9:20-23 completes “Gabriel Arrives with Insight”; the text now turns to “The Seventy Weeks Remain a Disputed Chronology.” This completes the present movement before the next larger development: Chapters 10-12 present one final revelation framed by mourning, angelic conflict, detailed imperial struggles, crisis, and resurrection. Within that movement: The cut-off anointed figure, destroyed city and sanctuary, and coming ruler receive competing historical and later readings.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and…”
In plain language: The cut-off anointed figure, destroyed city and sanctuary, and coming ruler receive competing historical and later readings.
Seventy sevens address sin, righteousness, city, sanctuary, anointed figures, covenant, sacrifice, and desolation in a highly disputed segmentation. The cut-off anointed figure, destroyed city and sanctuary, and coming ruler receive competing historical and later readings.
Why it matters: This wording carries a material lexical, historical, theological, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
Daniel 9:26 does not stand alone from Daniel 9:24–27. The weeks do not authorize predicting a modern date. Its verse-specific role is: The cut-off anointed figure, destroyed city and sanctuary, and coming ruler receive competing historical and later readings.
What Remains True
Hopeful reading of Scripture belongs with confession, mercy, justice, and patient uncertainty rather than mastery through arithmetic. Daniel 9:24-27 keeps that truth tied to this claim: Seventy sevens address sin, righteousness, city, sanctuary, anointed figures, covenant, sacrifice, and desolation in a highly disputed segmentation. In this unit: The cut-off anointed figure, destroyed city and sanctuary, and coming ruler receive competing historical and later readings.
Teach It Back
Explain Daniel 9:26's role in 9:24–27. Name the ancient setting, quote or paraphrase “And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and…”, state one material uncertainty, and name one conclusion the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Daniel 9:24-27 — The Seventy Weeks Remain a Disputed ChronologySources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Daniel 9:26 must be read with this unit-level uncertainty: The prayer's compositional relation to the vision, identity of both anointed figures, prince and covenant, division of the weeks, meaning of the final half-week, and Christian or futurist extension remain disputed. No single arithmetic should be presented as explicit and uncontested.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Daniel 9:24-27, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew aramaic text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Daniel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew-Aramaic wording, morphology, language boundary, names, repeated roots, clauses, and lexical controls.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Dan.xml, 9:24-27; Hebrew 1:1–2:4a and 8:1–12:13, Aramaic 2:4b–7:28
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Daniel with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level Hebrew-Aramaic, textual, historical, translation, chronology, angelic-language, and duration notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Daniel PDF, printed pp. 1662–1664, translation and translator notes on 9:24-27
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