Text: Daniel 9:11
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 29:20-21
Subject: Curses written in Torah (B)
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Daniel 9:11 confesses that "the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses" (הָאָלָה וְהַשְּׁבוּעָה הַכְּתוּבָה בְּתוֹרַת מֹשֶׁה, ha'alah vehashevu'ah hakketuvah betorat Mosheh) has been "poured out on us." This directly references Deuteronomy 29:20-21, which warns that "every curse written in this book" (כָּל־הָאָלָה הַכְּתוּבָה, kol-ha'alah hakketuvah) will fall on the covenant-breaker. Daniel uses the identical phrase "written curse" to identify the exile as the specific fulfillment of Deuteronomy's covenant sanctions. The prayer thus reads Israel's historical catastrophe as the enacted text of Torah -- not arbitrary divine wrath, but the outworking of covenant terms Israel had accepted at Moab.