Daniel 9:24-27 "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 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. 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. And he shall confirm the covenant 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."

TIME TABLE BCE 1026  - Solomon begins temple 1019  - Temple finished/anointing of temple  990  - Solomon dies/Israel becomes two kingdoms  720  - Northern Israel captured by Assyria  624 -  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon rules  615  - Destruction of Assyria; scattering of Northern Israelites begin  606  - Babylon invades kingdom of Judah         One 'week' covenant with King of Judah  585  - Jerusalem/temple 'cut-off'; 'Judah' taken captive to Babylon @559  - Kingdom of Judah's Princesses reach the Isles, led by Jeremiah  536  - King Cyrus' decree for 'Judah' to rebuild temple and Jerusalem  515  - Temple completed/anointed  333  - Alexander the Great

DO THE MATH        1026 BCE   490 yrs   536 BCE 1019 BCE   483 yrs   536 BCE 1019 BCE   434 yrs   585 BCE

        It would seem that anyone, at any time, can find whatever one is looking for in Biblical scripture - myself included. No matter what you, or anyone else finds, there is always others who will see an entirely different view of the same chapter and verse - which will hold just as much weight and proof as any former interpretations.  Is this possible? Yes, of course because we are looking at patterns - it is the pattern, which  reflects in history time and time again that becomes the constant. The patterns of prophecy tell as much as the interpretation of a single incident alone, for patterns repeat.

     Chapter nine of Daniel contains the mysterious 70 ‘weeks’, which has been subjected to many an analytic attempts, including my own.  Starting with verse 24, I submit my version of interpretation. The numbers in the following paragraphs indicate Strong’s Concordance reference numbers.


        After looking up the Hebrew/Chaldee words for the above verse, the following can honestly be interpreted from verse 24 of Chapter 9.

     Verse 25 goes on to say:
     Upon looking up the Hebrew meaning of verse 25, here is another way of reading this prophecy:

     Verse 26 goes as follows:
     Interpretation:
      Verse 27:
     Interpretation:

     Daniel’s 70 weeks have always been contorted around to suit Christians who want to align the 'weeks' with their own interpretation, however, they are wrong. This occurs because they are looking for the ‘anointed one’ after the rebuilding of the temple of 536 BCE.  What the Babylonian captives wanted at the time of Daniel’s vision was to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple. When Daniel received his vision of 70 weeks, the starting point was already known.  In 1019 BCE King Solomon had ‘anointed’ the sacred place/temple (#6944), which had taken him seven years to build.
    Seventy ‘weeks’ were required of Israel to anoint the Holy Temple (Solomon’s), make atonement for sin, bring in everlasting justification, and to have the prophecy fulfilled. The ‘TIME' starting point is 1026 BCE - the year that King Solomon started to build the temple (#6944).  The most ‘holy’ (#6944), can be a sacred place, day, prince, temple, or sanctuary.  In this case it is the temple that Solomon built.
     The first prophecy of 490 years (70 weeks) ends at 536 BCE.  This is the year that King Cyrus, from the East (Persia), made the formal decree allowing captives to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the city and temple. A decree that came down from Cyrus' Lord Marduk.
     The next period is for 483 years (69 weeks). Solomon’s temple took 7 years to build, so it was 1019 BCE at the completion and ‘anointing’ [of the temple]. Subtracting 483 from 1019 we come  to the year 536 BCE.  Just as Daniel’s vision had indicated, exactly 69 ‘weeks’, or 483 years from the ‘anointing’ - from Cyrus’ decree.
     For the last period of 434 years (62 weeks), we begin again at 1019 and subtract 434 years.  This comes out at 585 BCE., which is the year that King Nebuchadnezzer of Babylon captured Judah's descendants and totally destroyed Jerusalem and the temple.  The Jewish King and his royal sons were all murdered, leaving only the King’s young daughters [may have been daughters of King Coniah] to carry to the Celtic Isles [by Jeremiah]; the living ‘throne’ of David.
     Notice that ‘one week’ was covenanted with many, but not all.  This covenant was made by the Elohiym, through the King of Judah [Zedekiah/Mattahniah], to the people.  The northern tribes of Israel had been previously captured by Assyria in 720 BCE, so therefore the covenant was made only to descendants of Judah. This king of Judah was King Mattaniah aka Zedekiah, as we read in Jeremiah 34:8-17. (Zedekiah’s name was originally ‘Mattaniah’, but was changed to Zedekiah by Nebuchadnezzer - who does he think he is anyway?).
     ‘King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people, which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; that every man should let his manservant and maidservant (being of Hebrew nationality) go free....... But afterward they turned and caused the servants whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaidens (again).’  Thusly was the covenant with some of the Israelites made, and the said covenant then broken.  [See Jeremiah chapter 34].
     The length of 7 years can be found in the 14th verse:
     Verse 18-22 goes on to explain how the sacrifice of a calf shall be transferred to be the sacrifice of the people of Judah.
     In 585 BCE, after the 434 years of 62 ‘weeks’, the anointed ones/temple/city/Judah, were cut off.  Many tribal members of Judah were taken captive to Babylon for a period of seventy (70) years, until King Cyrus’ decree came in 536 BCE.
    The covenant made by King Mattaniah, aka Zedekiah, which occurred sometime prior to 585 BCE., was to allow liberty to all servants and handmaidens of Hebrew origin - which would have freed many from the tribes of Ephraim. (Because Assyria was captured in 615 - 608 BCE, many Israelites from the Northern Kingdom, who had been set free at the fall of Assyria, headed for 'higher' ground - many ended up in the northern Isles and western European lands. Many became servants to Judah at this time. These were mainly the bonded people that were to be released via the covenant of King Mattaniah aka Zedekiah; somewhere between 615 - 585 BCE.  The Elohiym wanted the Northern tribes of Israel to become scattered across the face of the earth, not end up as captives (again) to Babylon.  The tribes that did not join Judah at that time joined Ephraim/Manasseh and ended up (eventually) in the British ‘Isles’ and other north-westerly countries.
     Because the King of Judah went back on his promise, The Elohiym became very angry and allowed the Babylonians to capture Judah, and thereby the desolation to the city and land.  Evidently it was the same old pattern again, as far as Lord was concerned, for in the 13th verse we read:

     Again 'Judah's' descendants were repeating the same old pattern again - this time around 606 BCE.