Daniel — Footnotes

Chapter 1

1:20 — sacred scholars - see footnote at Genesis 41:8.

1:20 — psychics in the book of Daniel is used in the general sense of one who interprets signs, communicates with spirits, and other does other rituals to determine one's fate.

Chapter 9

9:25 — And sixty-two weeks it will be built again, this phrase expresses the idea that Jerusalem will remain built until the end of the sixty-two week period. It does not focus on when the building would be taking place. See page 26 in the citation from the footnote at the end of verse 27. See also the first paragraph of Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible at this verse under the phrase, 'The street shall be built again'.

9:27 — detestable things, traditionally 'abominations'.

9:27 — For various issues related to the translation of Daniel 9:24-27, such as the arrangement of clauses, see "The Seventy Weeks of Daniel against the Background of Ancient Near Eastern Literature" by Thomas Edward McComiskey in Westminster Theological Journal, Volume 47 (Spring 1985), pages 19-45, Westminster Theological Seminary, 1985.

Chapter 11

11:31 — detestable thing, traditionally 'abomination'.

Chapter 12

12:11 — detestable thing, traditionally 'abomination'.