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Daniel 9:24

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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 (Ezra 7:9-26) will bring us to the month of Nisan of the 4,746th year of the same period, or ad 33, the very month and year in which our Lord suffered, and completed the work of our salvation. Leviticus 25:8; Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6

finish: or, restrain, Matthew 1:21; 1 John 3:8

and to: Lamentations 4:22; Colossians 2:14; Hebrews 9:26, Hebrews 10:14

make an end of: or, seal up, Ezekiel 28:12

to make: Leviticus 8:15; 2 Chronicles 29:24; Isaiah 53:10; Romans 5:10; 2 Corinthians 5:18-20; Colossians 1:20; Hebrews 2:17

to bring: Isaiah 51:6, Isaiah 51:8, Isaiah 53:11, Isaiah 56:1; Jeremiah 23:5-6; Romans 3:21-22; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 3:9; Hebrews 9:12-14; 2 Peter 1:1; Revelation 14:6

seal up: Matthew 11:13; Luke 24:25-27, Luke 24:44-45; John 19:28-30

prophecy: Heb. prophet, Acts 3:22

and to anoint: Psalms 2:6, Psalms 45:7; Isaiah 61:1; Luke 4:18-21; John 1:41, John 3:34; Hebrews 1:8-9, Hebrews 9:11

the most: Mark 1:24; Luke 1:35; Acts 3:14; Hebrews 7:26; Revelation 3:7

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