Prophecy 25 of 30 · Timing
Seventy weeks: Messiah cut off
From the decree to rebuild Jerusalem, "an anointed one" will be cut off, and then the city and the sanctuary destroyed.
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Hebrew · Leningrad Codexעִבְרִית
24שָׁבֻעִ֨ים שִׁבְעִ֜ים נֶחְתַּ֥ךְ עַֽל־עַמְּךָ֣ ׀ וְעַל־עִ֣יר קָדְשֶׁ֗ךָ לְכַלֵּ֨א הַפֶּ֜שַׁע ולחתם [וּלְהָתֵ֤ם] חטאות [חַטָּאת֙] וּלְכַפֵּ֣ר עָוֺ֔ן וּלְהָבִ֖יא צֶ֣דֶק עֹֽלָמִ֑ים וְלַחְתֹּם֙ חָז֣וֹן וְנָבִ֔יא וְלִמְשֹׁ֖חַ קֹ֥דֶשׁ קָֽדָשִֽׁים׃shavu'im shiv'im nechtakh al-ammekha ve'al-ir kadshekha lekhalle happesha' ulehatem chattat ulekhapper avon ulehavi tzedek olamim velachtom chazon venavi velimshoach kodesh kadashim
25וְתֵדַ֨ע וְתַשְׂכֵּ֜ל מִן־מֹצָ֣א דָבָ֗ר לְהָשִׁיב֙ וְלִבְנ֤וֹת יְרֽוּשָׁלִַ֨ם֙ עַד־מָשִׁ֣יחַ נָגִ֔יד שָׁבֻעִ֖ים שִׁבְעָ֑ה וְשָׁבֻעִ֞ים שִׁשִּׁ֣ים וּשְׁנַ֗יִם תָּשׁוּב֙ וְנִבְנְתָה֙ רְח֣וֹב וְחָר֔וּץ וּבְצ֖וֹק הָעִתִּֽים׃veteda' vetaskel min-motza davar lehashiv velivnot yerushalam ad-mashiach nagid shavu'im shiv'a veshavu'im shishim ushenayim tashuv venivneta rechov vecharutz uvetzok ha'ittim
26וְאַחֲרֵ֤י הַשָּׁבֻעִים֙ שִׁשִּׁ֣ים וּשְׁנַ֔יִם יִכָּרֵ֥ת מָשִׁ֖יחַ וְאֵ֣ין ל֑וֹ וְהָעִ֨יר וְהַקֹּ֜דֶשׁ יַ֠שְׁחִית עַ֣ם נָגִ֤יד הַבָּא֙ וְקִצּ֣וֹ בַשֶּׁ֔טֶף וְעַד֙ קֵ֣ץ מִלְחָמָ֔ה נֶחֱרֶ֖צֶת שֹׁמֵמֽוֹת׃ve'achare hashavu'im shishim ushenayim yikkaret mashiach ve'en lo veha'ir vehakkodesh yashchit am nagid habba vekitzo vashetef ve'ad ketz milchama necheretzet shomemot
JPS 1917 · Jewish translation
24Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sin, and to forgive iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal vision and prophet, and to anoint the most holy place.
25Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto one anointed, a prince, shall be seven weeks; and for threescore and two weeks, it shall be built again, with broad place and moat, but in troublous times.
26And after the threescore and two weeks shall an anointed one be cut off, and be no more; and the people of a prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; but his end shall be with a flood; and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
World Messianic Bible
24“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
25“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
26After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.
Daniel 9:24-26. Transliteration simplified. Read the whole chapter
Fulfilment · New CovenantWMB
Luke 19:41-44 When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come on you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”
Galatians 4:4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
Mark 13:1-2 As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Rabbi, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!” Yeshua said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down.”
How rabbinic tradition reads it
Rashi and others read the anointed one as a priest or king of the Second Temple era (Agrippa, Onias), and the 70 weeks of years as ending in 70 CE. The Talmud (Sanhedrin 97b) warns against calculating the end.
Why Messianic Jews read it as Yeshua
Whatever the exact count, the order is clear: an anointed one is cut off, then the Temple is destroyed. Yeshua was crucified around 30 CE; the Temple fell in 70 CE.
Look at the text for yourself
Read Daniel 9:24-26 slowly, in the Hebrew and the JPS translation above. Then ask the question the Ethiopian official asked: "Who is the prophet talking about?"
Sources
- Rashi on Daniel 9:24-26
- Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 97b
- Josephus, Jewish War 6
- Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain), via OpenScriptures. English: JPS 1917; World Messianic Bible (public domain).
