Daniel 8:14
New International Version
He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated.”

New Living Translation
The other replied, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the Temple will be made right again.”

English Standard Version
And he said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state.”

Berean Standard Bible
He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be properly restored.”

King James Bible
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

New King James Version
And he said to me, “For two thousand three hundred days; then the sanctuary shall be cleansed.”

New American Standard Bible
And he said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be properly restored.”

NASB 1995
He said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the holy place will be properly restored.”

NASB 1977
And he said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the holy place will be properly restored.”

Legacy Standard Bible
He said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the holy place will be made righteous.”

Amplified Bible
He said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be cleansed and properly restored.”

Christian Standard Bible
He said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be restored.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be restored.”

American Standard Version
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he said to him: “Until evening and morning two thousand and three hundred, and righteousness shall triumph!”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he said to him, Evening and morning there shall be two thousand and four hundred days; and then the sanctuary shall be cleansed.

Contemporary English Version
The other answered, "It will be 2,300 evenings and mornings before the temple is dedicated and in use again."

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to him: Unto evening and morning two thousand three hundred days: and the sanctuary shall be cleansed.

English Revised Version
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He told me, "For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the holy place will be made acceptable to God."

Good News Translation
I heard the other angel answer, "It will continue for 2,300 evenings and mornings, during which sacrifices will not be offered. Then the Temple will be restored."

International Standard Version
"He told me, 'For 2,300 days. Then the Holy Place will be restored.'"

JPS Tanakh 1917
And he said unto me: 'Unto two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then shall the sanctuary be victorious.'

Literal Standard Version
And he says to me, Until evening—morning two thousand and three hundred, then is the holy place declared right.

Majority Standard Bible
He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be properly restored.”

New American Bible
He answered him, “For two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary shall be set right.”

NET Bible
He said to me, "To 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be put right again."

New Revised Standard Version
And he answered him, “For two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state.”

New Heart English Bible
He said to me, "To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then shall the sanctuary be restored to its rightful state."

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said to me, Until two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

World English Bible
He said to me, “To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary will be cleansed.”

Young's Literal Translation
And he saith unto me, Till evening -- morning two thousand and three hundred, then is the holy place declared right.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Daniel's Vision of the Ram and the Goat
13Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long until the fulfillment of the vision of the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host to be trampled?” 14He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be properly restored.”

Cross References
Revelation 11:2
But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

Revelation 11:3
And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth."

Revelation 12:14
But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

Revelation 13:5
The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.

Daniel 7:25
He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.

Daniel 12:7
And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, "It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed."

Daniel 12:11
And from the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation set up, there will be 1,290 days.


Treasury of Scripture

And he said to me, To two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

Unto.

Daniel 7:25
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Daniel 12:7,11
And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished…

Revelation 11:2,3
But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months…

two thousand.

days.

Daniel 8:26
And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.

Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

then.

Isaiah 1:27
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

Romans 11:26,27
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: …

Revelation 11:15
And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

cleansed.

Isaiah 45:25
In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

Galatians 3:8
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

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Daniel 8
1. Daniel's vision of the ram and he goat.
13. The two thousand three hundred days of the suspension of the daily sacrifice.
15. Gabriel comforts Daniel, and interprets the vision.














(14) Unto two thousand and three hundred days.--It is clear from the language that the period here spoken of terminates with the cleansing of the sanctuary, and that it begins with the transgression that led to the awful events that occurred in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes. Judas Maccabeus took Jerusalem in the year B.C. 165, and kept the Feast of Dedication the same year, Antiochus being at the time in Armenia. The period apparently commences with the events mentioned in 2 Maccabees 4:32-39, which occurred about B.C. 171. The dates, however, not being recorded precisely, it is impossible to reckon with certainty whence the starting-point is to be dated. The phrase "evening morning" (see margin) is used to indicate a complete night and day, and 2,300 complete days of twenty-four hours make a period of six years 140 days. It has been observed that this period falls short of seven years (a week of years) by about two-thirds of a year. If, then, seven years is the number of years symbolical of Divine chastisements, the prophecy implies that the people shall not suffer persecution according to their full deserts, but "for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened." (See Note on Daniel 7:25.)

Be cleansed.--Literally, be placed in its proper state.

Verse 14. - And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. The Massoretic reading is here clearly corrupt. "Unto me" ought to be "unto him," as proved by the versions and necessitated by sense. The LXX. is somewhat violent in construction, but means, "And he said to him, Until evenings and mornings are two thousand three hundred days, and the sanctuary shall be purified." Theodotion agrees closely with the LXX., only he has "five hundred" instead of "three hundred." The Peshitta agrees with the Massoretic, save as above mentioned - "him" instead of "me," and the last clause, which ought naturally to rendered "and the sacrifice be purified." The Hebrew phrase for this clause is an unnatural one - it might be rendered, "And holiness (or, 'holy thing,' 'offering') shall be justified." The want of the article is not an objection, as the manner of the author is to use the article sparingly. The word translated "cleansed" really means "justified;" it is the only example of this part of the verb. All the versions translate as if the word had been some derivative of טָהַר (tahar). The period referred to is that between the desolation inflicted on the temple by Antiochus Epiphanes and its cleansing by Judas Maccabaeus. It is somewhat difficult to fix the exact space of time intended by these two thousand three hundred evening-mornings. Does it mean two thousand three hundred days? For this may be urged that this succession. "evening and morning," not "morning and evening," resembles Genesis 1. If this resemblance is intentional, then "evening-morning" means a space of twenty-four hours. If the days are literal days, then the space of time would amount to nearly six years and a half, if' we take the year here as three hundred and sixty days. Another view is that day and night are separated and each reckoned; hence the number of days involved would be eleven hundred and fifty - fifty-five days more than three average years, and seventy days more than three years of three hundred and sixty days each. If, however, the year be the lunar year of three hundred and fifty-four days, it closely approximates to three years and a quarter. The period that one would naturally think of is that between the setting up of the abomination of desolation (1 Macc. 1:54), on the fifteenth day of Casleu, in the hundred and forty-fifth year of the Seleucid era to the rededication of the temple on the twenty-fifth of Casleu, in the hundred and forty-eighth year (from B.C. 167 to B.C. 164), but that is only three years and ten days. If the first and last of these years were respectively the fifth and seventh of a metonic cycle, in each of which there were intercalary months, then there is only a difference of eighteen days between the interval given above and the actual historical interval. If, however, we are to believe Maerobius ('Satur.,' 1:13, § 9), and hold that the intercalations were supplied by adding the three months in one year, if one of the years in question was the year in the cycle in which this took place, then the interval would be twelve days too much. In either case the difference is very small. The attempt to take the interval as two thousand three hundred days leads to very arbitrary results. Behrmann takes the victory of Adasa, which Judas gained over Nicanor, as the termination of the period - a purely arbitrary date, and reckons back to the displacement of Onias, another date that, so far as can be seen, was not regarded as of importance by the Jews, however important it has become in the eye of critics.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He said
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

to me,
אֵלַ֔י (’ê·lay)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

“It will take
עַ֚ד (‘aḏ)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

2,300
אַלְפַּ֖יִם (’al·pa·yim)
Number - md
Strong's 505: A thousand

evenings
עֶ֣רֶב (‘e·reḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6153: Evening

and mornings;
בֹּ֔קֶר (bō·qer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1242: Dawn, morning

then the sanctuary
קֹֽדֶשׁ׃ (qō·ḏeš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

will be properly restored.”
וְנִצְדַּ֖ק (wə·niṣ·daq)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6663: To be just or righteous


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