Daniel 12 · Verse 8

Daniel 12:8

And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
Daniel 12:8, King James Version

Daniel 12:8 in other translations

BSBI heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”
WEBI heard, but I didn’t understand. Then I said, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”
ASVAnd I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?
YLTAnd I have heard, and I do not understand, and I say, ‘O my lord, what is the latter end of these?'
DARBYAnd I heard, but I understood not. And I said, My lord, what shall be the end of these things?
BBEAnd the words came to my ears, but the sense of them was not clear to me: then I said, O my lord, what is the sense of these things?
WebsterAnd I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?

What does Daniel 12:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. understood not--Daniel "understood" the main features of the vision as to Antiochus (Da 10:1, 14), but not as to the times. 1Pe 1:10-12 refers mainly to Daniel: for it is he who foretells "the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow"; it is he who prophesies "not unto himself, but unto us"; it is he who "searched what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in him did signify."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 I heard, but I understand not - Could not comprehend what the time, times, and half time should refer to. These make three years and a half of prophetic times answering to one thousand two hundred and sixty years.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Daniel 12:5-13

One of the angels asking how long it should be to the end of these wonders, a solemn reply is made, that it would be for a time, times, and a half, the period mentioned Dn 7:25, and in the Revelation. It signifies 1260 prophetic days or years, beginning from the time when the power of the holy people should be scattered. The imposture of Mohammed, and the papal usurpation, began about the same time; and these were a…

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Daniel 12:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַאֲנִ֥יva.'a.Niand IH589
שָׁמַ֖עְתִּיsha.Ma'.tiI heardH8085
וְלֹ֣אve.Lo'and notH3808
אָבִ֑ין'a.VinI understoodH995
וָאֹ֣מְרָ֔הva.'O.me.Rahand I said !H559
אֲדֹנִ֕י'a.do.NiO lord myH113
מָ֥הmahwhat?H4100
אַחֲרִ֖ית'a.cha.Rit[will be] [the] latter part ofH319
אֵֽלֶּה\׃\ \פ'E.lehthese [things]H428

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Daniel 12:8

  • Acts 1:7

    And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

  • John 12:16

    These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.

  • Daniel 10:14

    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.

  • 1 Peter 1:11

    Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

  • Daniel 12:6

    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?

  • Luke 18:34

    And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
but.
Lu 18:34; Joh 12:16; Ac 1:7; 1Pe 1:11
what.
6; 10:14

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Context

  • Daniel 12:7

    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 heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

  • Daniel 12:8

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

  • Daniel 12:9

    And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

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Daniel 12:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y yo oí, mas no entendí. Y dije: Señor mío, ¿qué será el cumplimiento de estas cosas?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et moi, j’entendis, mais je ne compris pas. Et je dis: Mon seigneur, quelle sera l’issue de ces choses?
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und ich hörte es, aber ich verstand es nicht; und ich sprach: Mein Herr, was wird der Ausgang von diesem sein?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et ego audivi, et non intellexi. Et dixi: Domine mi, quid erit post hæc?