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Daniel 9:3

DANIEL—NOTE ON Daniel 9:3 Daniel began to pray for the restoration of God’s people to their land. Daniel also fasted and put on sackcloth and ashes.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Daniel 9:3. _I SET MY FACE - TO SEEK BY PRAYER_] He found that the time of the promised deliverance could not be at any great distance; and as he saw nothing that indicated a speedy termination...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND I SET MY FACE UNTO THE LORD GOD - Probably the meaning is, that he turned his face toward Jerusalem, the place where God had dwelt; the place of his holy abode on earth. See the notes at Daniel 6:...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 9 THE PROPHECY OF THE SEVENTY WEEKS _ 1. The time and occasion of Daniel's prayer (Daniel 9:1)_ 2. The prayer (Daniel 9:3) 3. The answer and the prophecy of the seventy weeks (Daniel 9:20)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SET MY FACE. Knowledge of Jehovah's words quickened his spiritual interest in them. THE LORD*. One of the 134 cases in which the _Sopherim_ state that they altered "Jehovah" of the primitive text to...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _set my face_ i.e. directed myself: cf. 2 Chronicles 20:3 (lit. - _set his face_to seek unto Jehovah"). _to_ SEEK PRAYER, &c. i.e. to apply myself to prayer, &c. _with fasting, and sackcloth, and ash...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Daniel's prayer, consisting (1) of a confession of national transgression, and of the justice of God's punishment (Daniel 9:4), and (2) of a supplication for mercy and restoration (Daniel 9:15). The p...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1138 HUMILIATION EXEMPLIFIED AND ENFORCED Daniel 9:3. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes; and I prayed unto the...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1137 DANIEL’S CONFESSION Daniel 9:3. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: and I prayed unto the Lord my God, and...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND I SET MY FACE—TO SEEK BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATIONS— _Wherefore, I set,_ &c. _that I might implore him by prayer,_ &c. Houbigant....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER NINE III. THE PRAYER, THE PRINCE, AND PROSPERITYDaniel 9:1-27 a. REPENTANCE TEXT: Daniel 9:1-14 1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasureus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: I SET MY FACE UNTO THE LORD GOD, TO SEEK BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATIONS - literally, '...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SEVENTY WEEKS In the first year of Darius the Mede, Daniel, studying the prophetical books, finds that Jeremiah has predicted that the desolation of Jerusalem will last for seventy years (Daniel 9...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 9 V1 This is what happened in the first year that Darius ruled the country. He was the son of Xerxes and he came from the country call...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I SET MY FACE. — Comp. Daniel 6:11. Probably he prayed, as on that occasion, with his face towards Jerusalem. The prayer of Daniel bears some resemblance to those offered by Ezra and Nehemiah, while t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וָ אֶתְּנָ֣ה אֶת ־פָּנַ֗י אֶל ־אֲדֹנָי֙ הָֽ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE SEVENTY WEEKS THIS chapter is occupied with the prayer of Daniel, and with the famous vision of the seventy weeks which has led to such interminable controversies, but of which the interpretation...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    INTERCESSION FOR A BELOVED PEOPLE Daniel 9:1-15 What a prayer is this! In many respects it is a model for us all. _It was based on the divine Word_. The fact that God had promised to restore the deso...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the first year of the reign of Darius, Daniel, who was evidently not only a man of prayer, but a diligent student of the prophetic writings, became conscious that the seventy years of judgment on J...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And I set my face unto the Lord God, to (d) seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: (d) He does not speak of that ordinary prayer, which he used in his house three t...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Lord had said by his servant Ezekiel, that for all his promised blessings, he would be enquired of by the house of Israel. Ezekiel 36:37. Here, therefore, Daniel set himself to pray, and that earn...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    When they were cast out and dispersed throughout the various countries of the earth, it seemed as if the covenant of God had been abolished, and as if there was no further advantage in deriving their...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 9 gives us a vision concerning the people and the holy city, consequent on Daniel's confession and intercession. It is, as has been remarked, in connection with the oppression of the western p...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I SET MY FACE UNTO THE LORD GOD, TO SEEK BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATIONS,.... He set apart some time on purpose for this service, distinct from his usual stated times of prayer, as well as from his ci...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: Ver. 3. _And I set my face unto the Lord God,_] _i.e., _ Toward the habitation of his...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I set my face unto the Lord God_ This expression does not merely mean, that he directed his face to the place where the temple had stood: it signifies also his resolution to apply to God with the utm...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    DANIEL'S CONFESSION AND PRAYER...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And I set my face unto the Lord God, the one sovereign God of the universe, TO SEEK BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATIONS, to plead for the restoration of the city of his fathers, WITH FASTING AND SACKCLOTH AND...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-3 Daniel learned from the books of the prophets, especially from Jeremiah, that the desolation of Jerusalem would continue seventy years, which were drawing to a close. God's promises are to encoura...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Observe two things: 1. That deep revolting, and deep afflictions, call for deep and solemn humiliation. 2. God's decrees and promises do not excuse us from duty and prayer, but include it and require...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Daniel 9:3 set H5414 (H8799) face H6440 Lord H136 God H430 request H1245 (H8763) prayer H8605 supplications...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And I set my face towards the Lord God to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.' He ‘set his face', suggesting firm intention and perseverance. The Lord Who is God...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Daniel 9:1. _In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by book...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Daniel 9:1. _In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by book...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Daniel 9:1. _In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus._ He is also called Cyaxares, the son of Astyages. His father was called by the jews, Ahasuerus. See on Esther. Daniel 9:2. _I Daniel und...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION DANIEL 9:1 THE SEVENTY WEEKS. This is the chapter of Daniel which has occasioned most controversy. It was appealed to by Tertullian and the early Fathers as a demonstration of the correctn...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    DANIEL'S PRAYER Daniel 9:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Prayer should always hold a prominent place in the lives of all Christians. We are to study today the prayer of one of God's greatest servants. As a pr...

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