Daniel 12:8

I heard, but I didn’t understand. Then I said, “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

7I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it will be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have finished breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished.

9He said, “Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.

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Cross References

Daniel 10:14Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision is yet for many days.”

Luke 18:34They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.

Acts 1:7He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within 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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