Bible Strands
Daniel 10:14
Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision concerns those days.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The angelic messenger addresses Daniel immediately after Michael’s intervention against the prince of Persia. The speaker identifies himself as the one who has arrived to deliver a delayed explanation.
The words — לַ/הֲבִ֣ינְ/ךָ֔ (la./ha.Vi.ne./kha) = to make understand you, paired with בְּ/אַחֲרִ֣ית הַ/יָּמִ֑ים (be./'a.cha.Rit hai./ya.Mim) = at the end of the days, frame the message as a future revelation.
The thread — The announcement of sealed future events echoes Daniel 2:28, Daniel 8:26, and Daniel 12:4, where divine mysteries are delayed, commanded to be sealed, or explicitly tied to a specific eschatological timeframe.
Why it lands — The text asserts that the vision’s fulfillment belongs to a defined future period, requiring the reader to accept delayed divine timing rather than demand immediate resolution.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
Cross-references
- Daniel 8:26 The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been spoken is true. Now you must seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.”
- Daniel 2:28 But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the latter days. Your dream and the visions that came into your mind as you lay on your bed were these:
- Daniel 12:4 But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”
- Habakkuk 2:3 For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay.
- Daniel 12:9 “Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.
- Genesis 49:1 Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to come:
- Deuteronomy 4:30 When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.
- Isaiah 2:2 In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
- Hosea 3:5 Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
- Micah 4:1 In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it.