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New Defender's Study Bible Notes
9:2 seventy years. See Jeremiah 25:11-12. Daniel, now an aged man, had been in Babylon since the very beginning of the prophesied seventy year period of exile. He realized from studying his Bible that this time had almost been accomplished.
9:3 prayer and supplication. Daniel realized that God desires us to claim His promises in prayer. Thus the fulfillment of a divine prophecy can also be understood as an answer to a believer’s prayer. Over and over, Christ has promised to come again, yet John closes the revealed Word of God with a prayer: “Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Revelation 22:20).
9:5 from thy judgments. Although Daniel is recognized in Scripture as almost uniquely righteous (Ezekiel 14:20), he confesses himself a sinner and even as sharing in the sins of his nation.