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Difference in translations on Daniel 9:26

wts07073
May 24, 2023
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Open Line Radio on May 20, hour 2

Question from Listener:

I pray that the Holy Spirit will help you enlighten my understanding. As I teach scripture, I taught Daniel, the book of Daniel, several times and I teach out of the New King James normally but I discovered that in Daniel 9:26, a phrase that I use to point to Messiah, Messiah shall be cut off but not for Himself, that phrase "but not for Himself" is not in the Holman Christian Standard, is not in the NIV and any of them.

Answer from Dr Michael Rydelnik: At 7:38 mins

https://www.moodyradio.org/radioplayer.aspx?episode=533287&hour=2

Summary:

In NKJV, Daniel 9:26 reads

26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.

In KJV,

26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

In NASB,

26 Then after the sixty-two weeks, the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

In NIV,

26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.

In HCSB,

26 After those 62 weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the coming prince will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed.

In Hebrew, the meaning is unclear.

"Not for himself" denotes substitution

"Nothing" means the Messiah is left destitute

 
 
 

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