Daniel 12:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

• Daniel 12:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And 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 under...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And many (b) of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt. (b) Meaning all will rise at the general resurrection, w...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Daniel 12. follows immediately upon the preceding paragraph, and there should be no break between the two Chapter s. 1- 3 forms the ending of the revelation which the angel makes to Daniel, and des...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  of them . from among them. sleep, &c. An inspired revelation as to death. earth . ground. shall awake . This is bodily resurrection. some . these (the former). everlasting life . Joh...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  As to the translation of the first words, it is literally, many who sleep in the earth of dust, or who are in earth and dust; for the genitive is used as an epithet, though it may be read a...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1141 DIFFERENT STATES OF MEN IN THE LAST JUDGMENT Daniel 12:2-3 . And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and eve...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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. Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth - This proph...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Many—that sleep—shall awake— Though this verse, without all question, primarily refers to some great and future restoration of the Jewish people; yet in a secondary sense, it may well be understood...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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. Many of them that sleep - translate as the Hebrew, 'man...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Final Vision These chs, form a connected whole, with three sub-divisions. Daniel 10:1 to Daniel 11:1 are introductory; Daniel 11:2 to Daniel 12:4 contain a detailed account of future e...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Many ... that sleep in the dust. — Literally, Many sleepers in the land of dust. The word “sleep” is applied to death ( Jeremiah 51:39 ; comp. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 ); while “dust” is used for t...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE EPILOGUE ( Daniel 12:1-13 ) THE twelfth chapter of the Book of Daniel serves as a general epilogue to the Book, and is as little free from difficulties in the interpretation of the details as...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Resurrection and Judgment Daniel 12:1-13 Michael was the guardian spirit of the Jewish people. When the time of trouble has reached its climax, whether in national or individual life, help is n...

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• Daniel 12:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The last things are then foretold. Michael, the great prince, would stand up for the children of God's people, and there would ensue a time of trouble such as never had been. Beyond that there would...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Those who believe in the doctrine of the Millennium, take the first of these sweet verses for one, among the evidences of it. And others refer it wholly to the Lord's judgment at the last day. In eit...

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• Daniel 12:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake ,.... Which is not to be understood in a figurative and metaphorical, sense, as by R. Jeshuah the Jew, Porphyry the Heathen, and by s...

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• Daniel 12:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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. Ver. 2. And many of them that sleep in the dust. ] "Many"...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And many that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake This may be understood, 1st, Of those saints who rose from the dead immediately upon the resurrection of Christ, spoken of Matthew 27:52-53...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Promised Appearance of Michael; The Prophecy Sealed Up. B. C. 534.       1 And at that tim...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  So enamoured are some of their notions, though found false and ill-grounded, that they will pertinaciously hold them, and seek still to prove one absurdity from another, as Grotius doth here, still e...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And many of those who sleep in the ground of dust will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.' This occurs ‘at that time'. While this clearly teaches bodily re...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  HOMILETICS SECT. XLVI.—THE RESURRECTION. (Chap. Daniel 12:2 .) We come to a most precious and important part of the angel’s communication. It is that in which he declares more distinctly than ha...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Daniel 12 We have in this chapter: I. The hope of the suffering saint. "Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting c...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Daniel 12:1 . At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince. In the time of Antiochus, Michael the archangel did nothing for the Jews, but leave them in Roman bondage. Therefore under this...

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• Daniel 12:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And at that time shall Michael stand up. The Great Consummation It is a little unfortunate that this chapter has been severed from what immediately precedes it. Here we learn: 1. That the ti...

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• Daniel 12:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Daniel 12:1-27 THE LAST THINGS . Daniel 12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standsth for the children of thy people: and there shall...

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• Daniel 12:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Deliverance of the Lord's People

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• Daniel 12:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 15:20-22 ; 1 Corinthians 15:51-54 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:14 ; Acts 24:15 ; Ezekiel 37:12 ; Ezekiel 37:1-4 ; Hosea 13:14 ; Isaiah 26:19 ; Isaiah 66:24 ; Jeremiah 20:11 ; Job 19:2...

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• Daniel 12:2 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Time of the End Daniel 12:1-13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is most interesting to discover the far-flung visions of prophecy, as told by the Spirit through the Prophets. These men of old, search...

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