Daniel 9:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

he shall confirm the covenant. make. firm covenant: i.e. the little horn will do this at the beginning of the last seven years. See note below on "one week". It may even be the beginning of the 2,300 days of Daniel 8:14. Compare Daniel 11:21-24.

the covenant. a covenant.

many. the many.

one week. This is the last seven years which completes the "seventy" of Daniel 9:24. the time when action commences in connection with Daniel's "city" and "People" (i.e. Jerusalem and Israel). These have been in abeyance since Daniel 9:26. Israel is " Lo-ammi" (= not my people, Hosea 1:9; Hosea 1:10). For the present interval between, Daniel 9:26 and Daniel 9:27, see Luke 4:18-20; Luke 21:24. App-50. also App-63. This fills the first half of the "week" (see Revelation 11:3-11).

the midst of the week. the middle of the week (i.e. at the end of the first three and. half years).

the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. sacrifice and oblation to cease. This is the action of "the little horn" (See Daniel 8:11; Daniel 8:12; Daniel 8:13; Daniel 11:31; Daniel 12:11). This belongs to the time of the end, and will be accompanied by the setting up of the abomination mentioned below and by our Lord in Matthew 24:15. See App-89 and App-90.

for the overspreading of. on the wing, or battlement of; but Ginsburg suggests. al kanno (instead of 'al kanaph). in its stead [shall be]: i.e. in place of the daily sacrifice. Compare Daniel 11:7.

abominations he shall make it desolate. the abomination that maketh desolate. See App-90. This is certainly future. See Matthew 24:15. Our Lord tells us where it will stand "in the holy place": i.e. in the Temple at Jerusalem: and we have the same admonition to "understand" (compare verses: Daniel 9:23; Daniel 9:25, above). Antiochus, the type of "the little horn", defiled the sanctuary, but he did not destroy it. He cannot therefore be the fulfiller of this prophecy, though he foreshadowed him.

abominations. Jehovah's name for an "idol", as being what he detests. Hebrew. shakaz. to be abominable. The "of" in this connection being the Genitive (of the Origin), App-17.: i.e. which causes the desolation. Compare 2 Kings 23:13.Isaiah 44:19, &c. Daniel 12:11 is conclusive.

until the consummation. unto. full end. The reference is to Isaiah 10:22; Isaiah 10:23.

determined. See note on "the wall", Daniel 9:25 above.

shall be poured upon. shall come pouring upon. For the fulfillment, compare Revelation 16:1; Revelation 16:2; Revelation 16:3; Revelation 16:4; Revelation 16:8; Revelation 16:10; Revelation 16:12; Revelation 16:17.

desolate. the causer of desolation. See Daniel 12:11. Then the consummation of Daniel 9:24 will be fulfilled.

Daniel 9:27

27 And he shall confirm the covenantf with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.