Psa 2:2, 6, Isa 61:1, Dan 9:24-26, Joh 1:41, 4:29, 20:31, Act 2:36, 9:20 | TSK | STEP

to proclaim.The proclaiming of perfect liberty to the bound, and the year of acceptance with Jehovah, is a manifest allusion to the proclaiming of the year of the jubilee by sound of trumpet; and our Saviour, by applying this text to himself, plainly declares the typical design of that institution.

42:7; 49:9,24,25; Ps 102:20; Jer 34:8; Zec 9:11,12; Joh 8:32-36

Ac 26:18; Ro 6:16-22; 7:23-25; 2Ti 2:25,26

Daniel 9:24-26

Seventy weeks.That is, seventy weeks of years, or 490 years, which reckoned from the seventh year of Artaxerxes, coinciding with the 4,256th year of the Julian period, and in the month {Nisan,} in which Ezra was commissioned to restore the Jewish state and polity, (Ezr 7:9-26) will bring us to the month of Nisan of the 4,746th year of the same period, or A.D. 33, the very month and year in which our Lord suffered, and completed the work of our salvation.

Le 25:8; Nu 14:34; Eze 4:6

finish. or, restrain.

Mt 1:21; 1Jo 3:8

and to.

La 4:22; Col 2:14; Heb 9:26; 10:14

make an end of. or, seal up.

Eze 28:12

to make.

Le 8:15; 2Ch 29:24; Isa 53:10; Ro 5:10; 2Co 5:18-20; Col 1:20

Heb 2:17

to bring.

Isa 51:6,8; 53:11; 56:1; Jer 23:5,6; Ro 3:21,22; 1Co 1:30; 2Co 5:21

Php 3:9; Heb 9:12-14; 2Pe 1:1; Re 14:6

seal up.

Mt 11:13; Lu 24:25-27,44,45; Joh 19:28-30

prophecy. Heb. prophet.

Ac 3:22

and to anoint.

Ps 2:6; 45:7; Isa 61:1; Lu 4:18-21; Joh 1:41; 3:34; Heb 1:8,9; 9:11

the most.

Mr 1:24; Lu 1:35; Ac 3:14; Heb 7:26; Re 3:7

and understand.

23; Mt 13:23; 24:15; Mr 13:14; Ac 8:30

from.

Ezr 4:24; 6:1-15; 7:1,8,11-26; Ne 2:1-8; 3:1

restore and to build Jerusalem. or, build again Jerusalem:as.

2Sa 15:25; Ps 71:10

the Messiah.

Joh 1:41; 4:25

the Prince.

8:11,25; Isa 9:6; 55:4; Mic 5:2; Ac 3:15; 5:31; Re 1:5; 19:16

seven weeks.The seventy weeks are here divided into three periods. 1. Seven weeks, or 49 years, for the restoration of Jerusalem. 2. Sixty-two weeks, or 434 years, from that time to the announcement of the Messiah by John the Baptist. 3. One week, or seven years, for the ministry of John and of CHRIST himself to the crucifixion.

be built again. Heb. return and be builded. wall. or,breach, or, ditch. even.

Ne 4:8,16-18; Eph 5:16

troublous times. Heb. strait of times.

Ne 6:15

Messiah.

Ps 22:15; Isa 53:8; Mr 9:12; Lu 24:26,46; Joh 11:51,52; 12:32-34

2Co 5:21; Ga 3:13; 1Pe 2:21,24; 3:18

but not. or, and shall have nothing.

Joh 14:30

and the people, etc. or, and (the Jews) shall be no more hispeople.

11:17; Ho 1:9

or, and the Prince's (Messiah's, ver. 25,) future people.The Romans, who under Titus, after the expiration of the 70 weeks, destroyed the temple and the city, and dispersed the Jews.

the prince.

Mt 22:2,7; 23:38; 24:2; Mr 13:2; Lu 19:43,44; 21:6,24; Ac 6:13,14

and the end.

Mt 24:6-14; Mr 13:7

with.

11:10; Isa 8:7; Jer 46:7; Am 8:8; 9:5; Na 1:8

desolations are determined. or, it shall be cut off bydesolations