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Daniel's seventy weeks

Artaxerxes issued the decree to rebuild Jerusalem in 444 BC (Nehemiah 2). Counting 483 years forward lands in the early first century AD, the window of Jesus' public ministry and crucifixion. Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed by Rome in AD 70, as foretold.

Fulfillment Notes

- Nehemiah 2:1-8 (Persian court records frame) - Josephus, Wars of the Jews 6 Scholarly note: Multiple calendrical schemes exist (Anderson, Hoehner, etc.). The math depends on which decree and which calendar is used.

Key Hebrew Terms

שָׁבוּעִים (shabuim, H7620); מָשִׁיחַ (mashiach, H4899); נָגִיד (nagid, H5057); חֵרֶב (cherev, H2719)

Linked Verses (4)

Daniel 9:24 source
KJV

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

Daniel 9:25 source
KJV

Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

Daniel 9:26 source
KJV

And 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.

Daniel 9:27 source
KJV

And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.