Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Ver. 25. Know, therefore, and understand.] See on Daniel 9:24. Here the angel brancheth the whole seventy sevens into three heads, or into three distinct periods of time.
Shall be seven weeks.] Which make forty-nine years. These the angel purposely speaketh of apart, because they chiefly concerned the reparation of the city made under the Persian monarchy. Within this first seven weeks, or forty-nine years, the street of Jerusalem was rebuilt, and the wall with trench, though the times proved troublous, and full of straits.
And threescore and two weeks.] Which make four hundred thirty-four years, the events of which are mentioned Dan 9:26 as those of the seven years following, Dan 9:27 out of which it might easily be supplied, and is therefore here omitted by the angel.