Devine Scripture

Daniel 9:2

Daniel chapter 9 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.

Context

v.1In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,

v.2This passage

v.3And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 29:10

    For thus saith Jehovah, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

  • Micah 3:12

    Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

  • Isaiah 24:10

    The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

  • Psalms 119:24

    Thy testimonies also are my delight Andmy counsellors. ד DALETH.

  • Matthew 24:15

    When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand),

  • Acts 8:34

    And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other?