Daniel 9

Daniel 9:1

With - Mixed with other hired soldiers. The Gammadim - Probably men of Gammade, a town of Phoenicia.

Daniel 9:3

Javan - The Grecians, particularly the Ionians. Tubal - The Asiatic Iberians, and the Albanians toward the Caspian sea. Meshech - The Cappadocians. They traded - Brought men to sell for slaves.

Daniel 9:4

Of the house - Of the country. Togarmah - Armenia the lesser, Phrygia, Galatia, or Cappadocia. Horsemen - It is likely they might sell grooms, as best able to manage, and keep those horses.

Daniel 9:5

Isles - In the Indian seas, and in the Red - sea traded with thee. Horns - Elk’s horns, or wild goats. Ebony - Is a very solid, heavy, shining, black wood, fit for many choice works.

Daniel 9:6

The multitude - The abundance of the Tyrian manufactures.

Daniel 9:7

Minnith - The name of an excellent wheat country. Pannag - Some obscure place, which now is forgotten.

Daniel 9:9

Javan - In the isle of Meroe, in Egypt.

Daniel 9:10

Dedan - The posterity of Abraham by Keturah, who dwelt in Arabia, and were sheep - masters. Clothes - With which they lined their chariots.

Daniel 9:12

Sheba - A country in Arabia Felix. Raamah - Another people of the same Arabia.

Daniel 9:13

Haran - In Mesopotamia, where Abraham dwelt. Canneh - This is supposed to be the same with Calneh, Genesis 10:10, afterwards Ctesiphon, a pleasant city on Tigris. Ashur - Assyria. Chilmad - A country between Assyria and Parthia.

Daniel 9:15

The ships - The ships from all parts of the sea. Did sing - Had their songs to commend thy state.

Daniel 9:16

Thy rowers - Thy governors and counsellors. Great waters - Dangers and difficulties. The east wind - The king of Babylon with his army. Hath broken - As surely will, as if he had already done it. In the midst - Where thou thoughtest thyself impregnable.

Daniel 9:17

All thy company - All that are men fit for war, in the multitudes of people that are in thee. Shall fall - These all shall fall together.

Daniel 9:18

The suburbs - The suburbs, which are nearest the sea, shall first hear the out - cries of pilots, and mariners.

Daniel 9:19

Shall come down - ln the allegory of a miserable shipwreck, the prophet sets forth the fall of Tyre; and in this verse he represents them all shifting out of the sinking ship, in great confusion.

Daniel 9:20

Wallow themselves in ashes - As men use to do in their greatest mournings.

Daniel 9:22

In the sea - Alas! what was once her safeguard, is now her grave.

Daniel 9:23

Went forth - Were landed. Thou filledst - There was enough to supply to the full.

Daniel 9:24

By the seas - The Babylonians, that like seas shall swell, roar, and break in upon thee.

Daniel 9:25

Troubled - They shall not be able to conceal the discomposure of their mind, but will shew it in their countenance.

Daniel 9:26

Shall hiss - Will mock at thy fall.