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Daniel 12:8
8I heard him, but I did not understand. So I asked him, “Sir, how will these things end?”
Daniel 12:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
- New International Version (NIV)I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will the outcome of all this be?”
- English Standard Version (ESV)I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, "O my lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?"
- New King James Version (NKJV)Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, “My lord, what shall be the end of these things?”
Context of Daniel 12:8
6One of them asked the man dressed in linen clothes who was above the river, “How long will it be until these miracles are over?” 7I heard the man dressed in linen clothes who was above the river. He raised his right hand and left hand to heaven and swore an oath by the one who lives forever. He said, “It will be for a time, times, and half of a time. When the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, then all these things will be finished.” I heard him, but I did not understand. So I asked him, “Sir, how will these things end?” 9He replied, “Go, Daniel. These words are to be kept secret and sealed until the end times. 10Many will be purified, made white, and refined. But wicked people will do wicked things, and none of them will understand. Only wise people will understand.
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וַאֲנִ֥י שָׁמַ֖עְתִּי וְלֹ֣א אָבִ֑ין וָאֹ֣מְרָ֔ה אֲדֹנִ֕י מָ֥ה אַחֲרִ֖ית אֵֽלֶּה׃ פRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Daniel 12:8
- Luke 18:34But they didn’t understand any of this. What he said was a mystery to them, and they didn’t know what he meant.
- John 12:16At first Jesus’ disciples didn’t know what these prophecies meant. However, when Jesus was glorified, the disciples remembered that these prophecies had been written about him. The disciples remembered that they had taken part in fulfilling the prophecies.
- Acts 1:7Jesus told them, “You don’t need to know about times or periods that the Father has determined by his own authority.
- 1 Peter 1:11So they tried to find out what time or situation the Spirit of Christ kept referring to whenever he predicted Christ’s sufferings and the glory that would follow.
- Daniel 12:6One of them asked the man dressed in linen clothes who was above the river, “How long will it be until these miracles are over?”
- Daniel 10:14I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the last days, because the vision is about times still to come.”
Commentaries on Daniel 12:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8I heard, but I understand not - Could not comprehend what the time, times, and half time should refer to. These make three years and a half of prophetic times answering to one thousand two hundred and sixty years.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8And I heard, but I understood not - He understood not the full significance of the language employed - “a time, and times, and an half.” This would make it probable that there was something more intended than merely three years and a half as the period of the continuation of these troubles. Daniel saw, apparently from the manner of the angel, as well as from the terms which he used, that there was something mystical and unusual in those terms, and he…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-13Verses 5-13 One of the angels asking how long it should be to the end of these wonders, a solemn reply is made, that it would be for a time, times, and a half, the period mentioned Dn 7:25, and in the Revelation. It signifies 1260 prophetic days or years, beginning from the time when the power of the holy people should be scattered. The imposture of Mohammed, and the papal usurpation, began about the same time; and these were a twofold attack upon the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-10God did not reveal exactly how and when everything would end. Daniel would not witness the end (Daniel 12:13); his task was to live his life with faith. purified, made spotless, and refined: God would use violent and terrifying times to improve the moral and religious character of his people (compare Daniel 11:35). Being wise means understanding God's ways and living by them. The wicked will not understand or change their ways, even if someone explains…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. understood not--Daniel "understood" the main features of the vision as to Antiochus (Da 10:1, 14), but not as to the times. 1Pe 1:10-12 refers mainly to Daniel: for it is he who foretells "the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow"; it is he who prophesies "not unto himself, but unto us"; it is he who "searched what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in him did signify."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Daniel 12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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