Daniel 12:8

I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”

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In The King James Version

And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?

In Context

7And 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.”

9“Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.

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Cross References

Daniel 10:14Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision concerns those days.”

Luke 18:34But the disciples did not understand any of these things. The meaning was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was saying.

Acts 1:7Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 12:6-13

Daniel's Solicitude to Know the Times; Period of Prophecy; Daniel Comforted. ( b. c. 534.) 5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. 6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 7 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… Read the whole commentary →

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