Daniel 12:2

Daniel 12:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• New International Version (NIV)Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Context of Daniel 12:2

1“At that time Michael, the great prince who watches over your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress unlike any other from the nation’s beginning up to that time. But at that time your own people, all those whose names are found written in the book, will escape. Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake – some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence. 3But the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever. 4“But you, Daniel, close up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will dash about, and knowledge will increase.”

Daniel 12:2 word by word

וְרַבִּ֕ים מִיְּשֵׁנֵ֥י אַדְמַת־עָפָ֖ר יָקִ֑יצוּ אֵ֚לֶּה לְחַיֵּ֣י עוֹלָ֔ם וְאֵ֥לֶּה לַחֲרָפ֖וֹת לְדִרְא֥וֹן עוֹלָֽם׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And manyרַבrab · manyH7227
• of them that sleepיָשֵׁןyâshên · sleepingH3463
• in the dustעָפָר‛âphâr · dustH6083
• of the earthאֲדָמָה'ădâmâh · land: soilH127
• shall awakeקִיץqûts · to awakeH6974
• some to everlastingעוֹלָם‛ôlâm ‛ôlâm · forever: enduringH5769
• lifeחַיִּיםchay · lifeH2416
• and some to shameחֶרְפָּהcherpâh · reproachH2781
• contemptדֵּרָאוֹןderâ'ôn dêrâ'ôn · abhorrenceH1860

Cross-references for Daniel 12:2

• Job 19:25As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.
• Isaiah 26:19Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.
• Ezekiel 37:1The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and placed me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.
• Hosea 13:14Will I deliver them from the power of Sheol? No, I will not! Will I redeem them from death? No, I will not! O Death, bring on your plagues! O Sheol, bring on your destruction! My eyes will not show any compassion!
• Matthew 22:29Jesus answered them, “You are deceived, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God.
• John 11:23Jesus replied, “Your brother will come back to life again.”
• 1 Corinthians 15:20But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.
• Revelation 20:12And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then books were opened, and another book was opened – the book of life. So the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds.
• Matthew 25:46And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
• John 5:28“Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
• Acts 24:15I have a hope in God (a hope that these men themselves accept too) that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
• Isaiah 66:24“They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die, and the fire that consumes them will not die out. All people will find the sight abhorrent.”
• Jeremiah 20:11But the Lord is with me to help me like an awe-inspiring warrior. Therefore those who persecute me will fail and will not prevail over me. They will be thoroughly disgraced because they did not succeed. Their disgrace will never be forgotten.
• Romans 9:21Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

Commentaries on Daniel 12:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth - This prophecy has been referred to the future restoration of the Jews. It will be also true of the state of mankind at the general judgment.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2And many of them - The natural and obvious meaning of the word “many” (רבים rabı̂ym ) here is, that a large portion of the persons referred to would thus awake, but not all. So we should understand it if applied to other things, as in such expressions as these - “many of the people,” “many of the houses in a city,” “many of the trees in a forest,” “many of the rivers in a country,” etc. In the Scriptures, however, it is undeniable that the word is…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2Everlasting life is entirely free from shame or disgrace (compare Genesis 2:25; 3:7).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. many ... that sleep--"many from among the sleepers ... these shall be unto everlasting life; but those (the rest of the sleepers who do not awake at this time) shall be unto shame" [Tregelles]. Not the general resurrection, but that of those who share in the first resurrection; the rest of the dead being not to rise till the end of the thousand years (Re 20:3, 5, 6; compare 1Co 15:23; 1Th 4:16). Israel's national resurrection, and the first…Read the comment

Topics related to Daniel 12:2

• Church
• Dead (People)
• Death
• Immortality
• Life
• Punishment
• Resurrection
• Righteous
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Eternal life
• Resurrection of the dead
• Abhor
• Awake
• Bel, and the Dragon
• Corruption
• Daniel, Book of
• Death
• Decease, in the Old Testament and Apocyphra
• Dust

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