Daniel 9 · Verse 10

Daniel 9:10

Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Daniel 9:10, King James Version

Daniel 9:10 in other translations

BSBand have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God to walk in His laws, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.
WEBWe haven’t obeyed the LORD our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
ASVneither have we obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
YLTand have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in His laws, that He hath set before us by the hand of His servants the prophets;
DARBYand we have not hearkened unto the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us through his servants the prophets.
BBEAnd have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God to go in the way of his laws which he put before us by the mouth of his servants the prophets.
WebsterNeither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

What does Daniel 9:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. set before us--not ambiguously, but plainly, so that we were without excuse.

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Daniel 9:4-19

In every prayer we must make confession, not only of the sins we have been guilty of, but of our faith in God, and dependence upon him, our sorrow for sin, and our resolutions against it. It must be our confession, the language of our convictions. Here is Daniel's humble, serious, devout address to God; in which he gives glory to him as a God to be feared, and as a God to be trusted. We should, in prayer, look both…

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Daniel 9:10 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.

וְלֹ֣אve.Lo'and notH3808
שָׁמַ֔עְנוּsha.Ma'.nuwe have listenedH8085
בְּק֖וֹלbe.Kolto [the] voice ofH6963
יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ'e.lo.Hei.nuGod ourH430
לָלֶ֤כֶתla.Le.khetto walkH1980
בְּתֽוֹרֹתָיו֙be.to.ro.Tavin laws hisH8451
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhichH834
נָתַ֣ןna.Tanhe setH5414
לְפָנֵ֔ינוּle.fa.Nei.nu<to> before usH6440
בְּיַ֖דbe.Yadby [the] hand ofH3027
עֲבָדָ֥יו'a.va.Davservants hisH5650
הַנְּבִיאִֽים\׃ha.ne.vi.'Imthe prophetsH5030

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

Cross references for Daniel 9:10

  • Daniel 9:6

    Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  • 2 Kings 18:12

    Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.

  • Nehemiah 9:13-17

    Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant: And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them. But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, …

  • Hebrews 1:1

    God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

  • 2 Kings 17:13-15

    Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God. And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

  • Ezra 9:10-11

    And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments, Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
which.
6; 2Ki 17:13; 18:12; Ezr 9:10,11; Ne 9:13-17; Heb 1:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Daniel 9:9

    To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;

  • Daniel 9:10

    Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

  • Daniel 9:11

    Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

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Daniel 9:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y no obedecimos á la voz de Jehová nuestro Dios, para andar en sus leyes, las cuales puso él delante de nosotros por mano de sus siervos los profetas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et nous n’avons pas écouté la voix de l’ Éternel, notre Dieu, pour marcher selon ses lois qu’il a mises devant nous par ses serviteurs les prophètes.
German
Elberfelder 1871
und wir haben der Stimme Jehovas, unseres Gottes, nicht gehorcht, um in seinen Gesetzen zu wandeln, welche er uns durch seine Knechte, die Propheten, vorgelegt hat.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
et non audivimus vocem Domini Dei nostri ut ambularemus in lege ejus, quam posuit nobis per servos suos prophetas.