Daniel 9:4-19, Hebrew with Meter Parsing and Notes

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Summary and Meter Import

 

Daniel 9 is a metered prayer;  God's reply in Daniel 9:24-25 is also metered. Its text in every translation, explicitly uses numbers based on Daniel's meter; but you can't see that meter, in translation.  Moreover, the meter style is the same as used in both Psalm 90 and Isaiah 53; and by use of meter, Daniel 'tags' specific verses and phrases, in those two passages.  Paul will 'tag' Daniel, Isaiah and Moses the same way, in Ephesians 1:3-14;  Paul will also ape the same meter style in all its characteristics, proving for us the fact that meter was used as a major communication engine for doctrine, as much as the explicit text, itself.  Hence knowing the meter, dramatically alters how you read and interpret not only Daniel 9, but all prophecy, and many doctrines, especially Trinity.  For one of the ways God communicates DECREE, is by trebling: all Members AGREE.

 

How we read Bible history is affected, too: for just as Moses and Isaiah, Daniel meters his prayer into a chronology of both past and future.  Moreover, Daniel meter-maps back to both Isaiah and Moses' chronologies, as legal precedence for his petition.  Unlike them, Daniel's meter is syncopated, not uniformly symmetrical; to illustrate the sad history of Israel's bad voting via the history of its kings; starts with David and ends at 607BC, when Daniel was taken captive, verses 13 (Time Track 2) and 14 (Time Track 1).

 

Prayer Outline, as shown by the metered bookends on page 3 and 4:

 

¨     Daniel 9:4-9:13, The Indictment, 434 syllables, @49 syllables in each verse 4 and 13, bookend a full-circle timeline starting from when Daniel prays in 538BC, going back to David's Kingship at Hebron, then annually forward to 538BC, when Daniel prays (using Time Track 2, see page 4).  The Indictment Crux is sub-bookended in palindromic 58's, verses 11 and 12.  This covers Isaiah's ministry, ending with Manasseh's capture and repentance; as a result, Temple Down was irrevocable, 2Kings 21:11-15, 23:26, 24:3.  So Daniel organizes his meter to circle on the root reason why he was captured, and why he prays 'now'.

 

¨     Daniel 9:14-9:19, The Petition. 9:14 is a standalone sevened preamble of 42 syllables (first bookend), summarizing the case.  The Petition has three subparagraphs.

¨     The 9:14 subparagraph ends with 9:17 (second 42-syllable bookend), sum = 64 threes (not sevens).

 

¨     The 2nd subparagraph's closing bookend at Verse 18, metered at 69 syllables, 'ropes' back to its first 69-syllable bookend in Daniel 9:7, where the bad time began (under Solomon), and it runs 194 threes (not sevens).  Excluding the overlap, verse 18 alone = 23 threes. The hanging-chad seven owed on the 49 missed sabbatical years, can't play pre-Messiah.  So 7 is in ellipsis.

¨     Verse 19 is the third subparagraph, truncated to 47 syllables.  Would be 54 = reimbursement due Gentiles for Abraham's too-early maturation, = 18 threes and equals the meter God will use in Daniel 9:27.

 

¨     Sum of all three subparagraphs (without overlap) = 105 threes, including the ellipsis. 105 also equals 15 sevens.

 

¨     Paul will use these Daniel threesomes, to craft his meter for the three sets of anaphora bookends in Ephesians 1:3-14 (i.e., opening the eudokian anaphora at syllable 105, in Ephesians 1:6; and ending the anaphora's last bookend, also at 105).  So clearly he parallells Daniel's prayer and God's answer, on purpose.  You can't see any of this in translation, for the rhetorical style is to give generic words a historical underpinning, just as Moses did, in Psalm 90.  Like, an anthem.

Daniel 9:4-19 Summary and Meter Import, continued

 

Daniel's historical use of meter was annotated in http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.doc , starting at Footnote E.  The related Kings and Chronicles verses were listed, so the reader can 'track' that history, with Daniel's prayer. An updated copy of that Footnote E text follows at the end of THIS document; this document's content SUPERCEDES the link copy.  Eventually, Footnote E will be removed from the above link, and the reader will be referred here.  I apologize for this piecemeal material, but I publish it as I learn it, and then must go back and edit.

 

Again, Paul plays Daniel, in Ephesians 1:3-14.  You will misinterpret Ephesians if you don't know how Paul uses meter;  if you don't know how Paul plays on Daniel.  So  http://www.brainout.net/Ephesians1REPARSED.doc covers the Ephesians passage, and contains a comprehensive list of all associated videos and documents.  

 

In sum, this document shows how Daniel's words are timed to history, via the meter. For he keys his words to the time periods he references in that meter.  After he completes the historical indictment in Daniel 9:13, he starts to use meter as the basis for his petition to God to restore the Temple -- which means, restoring the Time.  Daniel calculates how much time, via meter.  God thus responds to Daniel's calculations.  God also lists the meters Daniel uses, which to us in English are 70, 49, 7, 62 (434).  We don't know where those numbers come from, in English.  So we don't know why God subdivides the time as He does.  So we have miscalculated what Daniel 9:24-27 means, for centuries!

 

Hence this document shows Daniel's meter, so we can know what Daniel meant by what he said, WHY he asked God for those units of Time, and WHY God responded as He did.  Thus we can finally calculate Daniel 9 correctly.  And hence, understand what Paul means in Ephesians 1:3-14, as well.

 

URL of this document: http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.RTF . Pdf: http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.pdf .  The pdf version can't 'read' the intra-document navigation links.  You have to use the RTF in Word or a word processor which can 'see' the links.  WordPerfect can read the links, but it cannot properly read the formatting, in any WordPerfect version I have (through X4).  So don't use WordPerfect.  This document was written in Word 2002 upgrades, so should be readable in any version of Word; though Word 2007 has many bugs and might not display older Word documents properly.  (I didn't test Word 2010.)  If your version of Word can't read the document well, let me know and maybe I can convert it to your version.

 

Daniel 9:4-19  (underlined subscripted or superscripted text inside the 'boxes', are hyperlinked notes.  So are verse numbers, at far right.)

Calc.	Verse	#
	וָֽאֶתְפַּֽלְלָ֛ה לַיהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהַ֖י10 וָאֶתְוַדֶּ֑ה וָאֹֽמְרָ֗ה5 אָנָּ֤א אֲדֹנָי֙5 הָאֵ֤ל הַגָּדוֹל֙5 וְהַנּוֹרָ֔א4 שֹׁמֵ֤ר הַבְּרִית֙5	9:4
49 a          49	וְֽהַחֶ֔סֶד4 לְאֹהֲבָ֖יו4 וּלְשֹׁמְרֵ֥י מִצְוֹתָֽיו׃7
73 b 24	חָטָ֥אנוּ וְעָוִ֖ינוּ6 (וְהִרְשַׁעְנוּ) [הִרְשַׁ֣עְנוּ] וּמָרָ֑דְנוּ6 וְס֥וֹר מִמִּצְוֹתֶ֖ךָ6 וּמִמִּשְׁפָּטֶֽיךָ׃6	9:5
113 c 40	וְלֹ֤א שָׁמַ֙עְנוּ֙ אֶל־עֲבָדֶ֣יךָ הַנְּבִיאִ֔ים14 אֲשֶׁ֤ר דִּבְּרוּ֙ בְּשִׁמְךָ֔7 אֶל־מְלָכֵ֥ינוּ שָׂרֵ֖ינוּ וַאֲבֹתֵ֑ינוּ12 וְאֶ֖ל כָּל־עַ֥ם הָאָֽרֶץ׃7	9:6
	לְךָ֤ אֲדֹנָי֙ הַצְּדָקָ֔ה9 וְלָ֛נוּ בֹּ֥שֶׁת הַפָּנִ֖ים8 כַּיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה לְאִ֤ישׁ יְהוּדָה֙9 וּלְיוֹשְׁבֵ֣י יְרֽוּשָׁלִַ֔ם8 וּֽלְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֞ל	9:7
182 133 d            69	הַקְּרֹבִ֣ים9 וְהָרְחֹקִ֗ים בְּכָל־הָֽאֲרָצוֹת֙10 אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִדַּחְתָּ֣ם שָׁ֔ם בְּמַעֲלָ֖ם10 אֲשֶׁ֥ר מָֽעֲלוּ־בָֽךְ׃6
212  e 30	יְהוָ֗ה לָ֚נוּ בֹּ֣שֶׁת הַפָּנִ֔ים9 לִמְלָכֵ֥ינוּ לְשָׂרֵ֖ינוּ9 וְלַאֲבֹתֵ֑ינוּ אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָטָ֖אנוּ לָֽךְ׃12	9:8
233  f 21	לַֽאדֹנָ֣י אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ הָרַחֲמִ֖ים וְהַסְּלִח֑וֹת15 כִּ֥י מָרַ֖דְנוּ בּֽוֹ׃6	9:9
269  g 36	וְלֹ֣א שָׁמַ֔עְנוּ בְּק֖וֹל יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ12 לָלֶ֤כֶת בְּתֽוֹרֹתָיו֙7 אֲשֶׁ֣ר נָתַ֣ן לְפָנֵ֔ינוּ8 בְּיַ֖ד עֲבָדָ֥יו הַנְּבִיאִֽים׃9	9:10
	וְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל עָֽבְרוּ֙ אֶת־תּ֣וֹרָתֶ֔ךָ12 וְס֕וֹר לְבִלְתִּ֖י שְׁמ֣וֹעַ בְּקֹלֶ֑ךָ וַתִּתַּ֙ךְ12 עָלֵ֜ינוּ הָאָלָ֣ה9 וְהַשְּׁבֻעָ֗ה	9:11
327  h  58	אֲשֶׁ֤ר כְּתוּבָה֙ בְּתוֹרַת֙12 מֹשֶׁ֣ה עֶֽבֶד־הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים8 כִּ֥י חָטָ֖אנוּ לֽוֹ׃5	9:12
	וַיָּ֜קֶם אֶת־(דְּבָרָיו) [דְּבָר֣וֹ]׀6 אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֣ר עָלֵ֗ינוּ7 וְעַ֤ל שֹֽׁפְטֵ֙ינוּ֙5 אֲשֶׁ֣ר שְׁפָט֔וּנוּ6 לְהָבִ֥יא עָלֵ֖ינוּ6 רָעָ֣ה
385 203  h   58	גְדֹלָ֑ה5 אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא־נֶעֶשְׂתָ֗ה6 תַּ֚חַת כָּל־הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם7 כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר נֶעֶשְׂתָ֖ה בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃10
	כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר כָּתוּב֙ בְּתוֹרַ֣ת מֹשֶׁ֔ה9 אֵ֛ת כָּל־הָרָעָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את בָּ֣אָה עָלֵ֑ינוּ12 וְלֹֽא־חִלִּ֜ינוּ5 אֶת־פְּנֵ֣י׀ יְהוָ֣ה	9:13
434 49  a, i             49	אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ9 לָשׁוּב֙ מֵֽעֲוֹנֵ֔נוּ6 וּלְהַשְׂכִּ֖יל בַּאֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃8
	וַיִּשְׁקֹ֤ד יְהוָה֙ עַל־הָ֣רָעָ֔ה9 וַיְבִיאֶ֖הָ עָלֵ֑ינוּ7 כִּֽי־צַדִּ֞יק יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ9 עַל־כָּל־מַֽעֲשָׂיו֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֔ה9	9:14
476 42    j  42	וְלֹ֥א שָׁמַ֖עְנוּ בְּקֹלֽוֹ׃8
	וְעַתָּ֣ה׀ אֲדֹנָ֣י אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ10 אֲשֶׁר֩ הוֹצֵ֙אתָ אֶֽת־עַמְּךָ֜ מֵאֶ֤רֶץ מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ בְּיָ֣ד חֲזָקָ֔ה20 וַתַּֽעַשׂ־לְךָ֥ שֵׁ֖ם6 כַּיּ֣וֹם	9:15
522  46	הַזֶּ֑ה4 חָטָ֖אנוּ רָשָֽׁעְנוּ׃6
	אֲדֹנָ֗י כְּכָל־צִדְקֹתֶ֙ךָ֙10 יָֽשָׁב־נָ֤א אַפְּךָ֙ וַחֲמָ֣תְךָ֔10 מֵעִֽירְךָ֥ יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם הַר־קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ12 כִּ֤י בַחֲטָאֵ֙ינוּ֙ וּבַעֲוֹנ֣וֹת	9:16
584  k 62	אֲבֹתֵ֔ינוּ12 יְרוּשָׁלִַ֧ם וְעַמְּךָ֛8 לְחֶרְפָּ֖ה לְכָל־סְבִיבֹתֵֽינוּ׃10
626 j  42	וְעַתָּ֣ה׀ שְׁמַ֣ע אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ9 אֶל־תְּפִלַּ֤ת עַבְדְּךָ֙7 וְאֶל־תַּ֣חֲנוּנָ֔יו6 וְהָאֵ֣ר פָּנֶ֔יךָ6 עַל־מִקְדָּשְׁךָ֖5 הַשָּׁמֵ֑ם לְמַ֖עַן אֲדֹנָֽי׃9	9:17
	הַטֵּ֙ה אֱלֹהַ֥י׀5 אָזְנְךָ֘ וּֽשֲׁמָע֒7 (פִּקְחָה) [פְּקַ֣ח] עֵינֶ֗יךָ5 וּרְאֵה֙ שֹֽׁמְמֹתֵ֔ינוּ8 וְהָעִ֕יר אֲשֶׁר־נִקְרָ֥א שִׁמְךָ֖	9:18
695 l  69	עָלֶ֑יהָ12 כִּ֣י׀ לֹ֣א עַל־צִדְקֹתֵ֗ינוּ אֲנַ֙חְנוּ8 מַפִּילִ֤ים6 תַּחֲנוּנֵ֙ינוּ֙ לְפָנֶ֔יךָ9 כִּ֖י עַל־רַחֲמֶ֥יךָ הָרַבִּֽים׃9
	אֲדֹנָ֤י׀ שְׁמָ֙עָה֙6 אֲדֹנָ֣י׀ סְלָ֔חָה6 אֲדֹנָ֛י הַֽקֲשִׁ֥יבָה7 וַעֲשֵׂ֖ה אַל־תְּאַחַ֑ר לְמַֽעֲנְךָ֣ אֱלֹהַ֔י14 כִּֽי־שִׁמְךָ֣ נִקְרָ֔א	9:19
742 266  m               47	עַל־עִירְךָ֖ וְעַל־עַמֶּֽךָ׃14

 

 

Daniel 9:4-19 Meter Chronology Chart

 

(underlined text hyperlinks to Notes in this doc)

Daniel 9:4-19 Meter Chronology Chart Notes

 

A.  Track 2 and 3 use the 'Diff' column to tie in Isaiah 53's and finally Psalm 90's syllables, cumulatively; thus the chronology is faster.

 

B.  Daniel 9:15's 46 syllables is a palindromic sum: Daniel's prayer is 23 years after Nebuchadnezzar's death (dateline tying backward, beginning of year); 23 years before, end of God's decreed deadline for Temple rebuilding, 516BC (dateline tying forward, end of year).  He is also 70 years from the upcoming 70-year voting period which will begin in 467 BC.  That's another time palindrome.  (Time equidistance and number Palindromes are hallmarks in Bible Hebrew meter, idea of showing the 'circle' of Time returning to fulfill God's Purpose.)  There are other meanings to the 46, but I've not yet figured them all out.  However, Daniel still tracks to Psalm 90, from verse 16 now:  next 46 syllables after syllable 294 in Psalm 90 (which ended its verse 15), Daniel now tags.  That's all of Psalm 90:16 up to the last 10 syllables of verse 17; Daniel cuts off the 'nu' from aleynu -- meaning, establish HIM (becomes 3rd person masc singular).  Whose hands?  Messiah, the God who will take ON Hands, Isaiah 52:13, 53:1, 53:10c.  (My pastor had a field day pointing that out in his exegesis on Isaiah 53, Lessons 26-28.)

 

Daniel also still tracks Isaiah 53, but at 397BC Isaiah inserts a 364-year ellipsis for the promise of 1st Temple's standing years being restored, end Isaiah 53:10.  So Daniel updates Isaiah: Daniel textually 'ropes' Isaiah 53:10 to Psalm 90:17 'establish the work of our hands' -- to establishing MESSIAH, which of course is what Isaiah 53:10 is about -- 'by His Hand, He succeeds'.  Thus Daniel cleverly truncates Psalm 90:17's 'aleynu' to 'aley' at the 340th syllable of Psalm 90.  In Hebrew that changes the meaning to, 'establish the work of our hands for HIM' -- Messiah.

 

So notice the cleverness: 

¨     Isaiah 53 syllable 340, is 450 BC, four or seven years before Nehemiah will learn of a new attack on Jerusalem, which results in her wall going down again, Nehemiah 1:1ff.  Daniel is tying forward to that time, by benchmarking Isaiah 53 syllable 340, in Daniel 9:15. [Easton's Dictionary says Nehemiah returned 446BC.  The doubled-70 time grant you'll see accounted below, also has the second (of three) 70's ending at 446BC, to reimburse for Temple being built by the 516BC deadline of Jeremiah 25:11-12, 29:10-11, etc.  ISBE and other sources claim Nehemiah went to Jerusalem in 444BC, and Isaiah 53:9's 2nd clause pregnantly ends at that year also: and associated with a rich man, in His Deaths.  Many people mistake Nehemiah's coming as the time of a decree GOING forth, to calculate Daniel 9:25's seven and sixty-two weeks; since the numbers then balance to the Crucifixion, if one uses solar years as one should.  But Nehemiah's surprise in 446 or 444 shows that Jerusalem had already been long rebuilt; only its wall was newly down, with associated wreckage.  He rebuilt it in 52 days, Neh 6:15.  So the point of the passage is to prove that Jerusalem had already been rebuilt by the 446BC deadline per God's decree, not any king's;  as you'll see, in http://www.brainout.net/Dan924HebParsed.pdf .]

 

¨     But also, Isaiah 53:10 syllable 390 (b'yado) = 397BC, end of the historical Voting Period referenced at the end of Psalm 90, about which Daniel votes --

¨     Isaiah 53:10, metrically replies to Psalm 90:17 via the same 1/2 voting meter (35), and Isaiah uses 'hand' to tie as well.  So, Daniel does the same thing: in Dan9:15, using 'hand'.

¨     After all, the God who delivered them from Egypt, was to become the Passover Lamb, per Isaiah 53:10 contract.  See how the association between 'Egypt' and 'hand' evokes Moses (who Daniel named in his 9:13) -- and 'hand' in Isaiah 53:10 thus links to Passover, birthday of the nation?  See how Bible's meter is as deft and deliberate, as its textual incorporation by reference?

 

So Daniel now shifts, here in 9:15, to Future Accounting Meter.  That's why he makes another equidistant dateline.  He now accounts Time based on what God already told him about the future, and based on the PROMISE in the ellipsis of Temple years in Isaiah 53 (after verse 10, before verse 11) -- to tally years for his petition to restore the Temple, and thus  Time itself.  Daniel's language is strong, for he invokes Numbers 14:12-19, when God offered to destroy Israel and begin again with only Moses.  At this point, instead of tagging directly to Moses and Isaiah's syllables  by cumulative differences between his metered paragraphs (for Time Track 2), beginning in verse 16, Daniel instead will tag his own prayer's meter, based on the new information God gave him about that future, from Daniel 3 forward.

 

So for what follows, notice that previously Daniel had last 'sevened' at verse 14.  Cumulative tally there, was 476.  Hence Daniel's syllables will next seven, at Dan9:19's end, the difference (from verse 14) being 266 = 38 sevens = 126+70+70.   126 reimburses unlapsed promised 1st-Temple Time = 70+49+7;  it will play as another 70 from 516BC-446BC, to get to Voting period.  266 = 252 + 14. Thus he invokes a LIKE REIMBURSEMENT, tagging  the ellipsis of 252 syllables=years between Isaiah 52:15 and 53:1 (to align from David's Death to 712BC with Hezekiah @53:1's start).   So notice:  the 364 ellipsis + 252 ellipsis in Isaiah = 616, minus the 126 unlapsed 1st-Temple Time (offset) = 490!   See, he balances Time like credits and debits, 'obeying' Psalm 90:15!

 

Syllable sum 742 in v.19 is 8 sevens short of # of sevens in Allotted Time for mankind, 750*7=5250 = Psalm 90 Allotment.  So God replies with this meter in Dan 9:24-27, see http://www.brainout.net/Dan924HebParsed.pdf . More about this follows in Note F, below.

Daniel 9:4-19 Meter Chronology Chart Note B, continued

 

Paul picks up at this point, metering his 'dateline' paragraph when Christ would have been age 56, in Ephesians 1:4.  Paul also piggybacks the same factors to craft his epainon anaphora as 67 and 38 threes, see http://www.brainout.net/Ephesians1REPARSED.doc .  Just as Daniel had tagged Isaiah and Moses by differentials between sevened paragraphs, Paul metrically tags Dan9:14 through Dan9:19, to 'answer' Daniel's petition. 

 

¨     For Daniel 9:14-19's sum with ellipsis:  266+42+7=315.

¨     In Paul,  (67+38) x 3.

 

Thus Paul emphasizes continuity of God's Will and Purpose to Glorify Christ.  This helps us to grasp how Paul 'reads' Daniel 9's meter.  Briefly put, in Ephesians 1:3-14, Paul crafted three anaphora 'bookends':  material between the bookends is the 'content', just as Daniel uses   49  69  58  58  49  42  42  69   bookends, here.

 

¨     First Paul crafts a eudokian anaphora, metered at 77 threes or 33 sevens.  Tying to, Christ as 77th Son Who Dies at Age 33, the Good Will and Pleasure of Father to make us sons in the Son (verse 5), Who became the Asset Portfolio we can 'eat', now that He is revealed (verse 9); as a result of which we become Temple Shewbread and Firstfruits, like Him (verse 12).  The summed meter is 231 syllables = Daniel 9:24-27, God's Reply to Daniel.  So this anaphora updates that reply with God's Will and Purpose for Church, as 'inside' what God told Daniel: hence the witty hidden-from-eternity-past musterion language of Pleromatos Pregnant Time, a theme Paul never tires of repeating in Romans 8, Galatians 4, and of course in Ephesians.

 

¨     The 'eat', Temple Shewbread, and Firstfruits are themselves a third anaphora, which in the above REPARSED link I call 'Temple Trio'.   Its meter is a 70 plus a 42, signifying Voting and Generation Building, respectively.  Sum is 112 = 56 x 2, aka 16 sevens.  So the Trio 'replies' to Daniel 9:25+26 = 114 syllables, since your 57th year begins piggybacked on your 56th birthday: Time won't complete to Millennium if Church isn't made into Shewbread from THE Shewbread, as that's the Plan.  Keywords in the Temple Trio are proetheto (Eph 1: 9), prothesin (1:11), and proelpikotas (1:12).

 

¨     Between the other two anaphora is the epainon anaphora, at 67 + 38 threes = 105 threes, aka 45 sevens.  As noted above, the 105 threes = Daniel 9:14-17.  So, even as the eudokian anaphora was a full reply to Daniel 9:24-27, this epainon anaphora fully 'replies' to Daniel 9:14-19.  Let's see why.

o      The epainon anaphora is birthed by the eudokian, also in Ephesians 1:6.  Greek epainon's translation 'praise', doesn't properly convey the fact that Glory is REFLECTED in whatever or whomever will be used to CREATE that praise.

o      In Ephesians 1:12, the next use of the epainon anaphora, we find out that the 'praise', is US.  Meaning, we will REFLECT CHRIST, which of course we learn in other verses as well (like 1John 2:26-3:2, 1Cor 13, later in Ephesians, Revelation 4).

 

o      In Eph1:14 the epainon anaphora completes, and we learn that the Holy Spirit makes us INTO His Glory.  THE Glory.  Shekinah Glory, 10th priestly course name, 2nd week of Chislev, which in some years = the Lord's Birthday on Chanukah aka Christmas (especially  since Pope Gregory cut 10 days out of the Julian calendar).

 

o      Thus we see the tie back to Daniel, and Temple.  Daniel prayed for the Temple to be rebuilt.  It was. But then The Temple the Temple Depicted, was Rejected when He came, Man of Sorrows still By His Hand Succeeding at the Cross, paying for l'rabbim, the people.

 

o      So would the Temple Get His Promised Time, or would Time END?  62nd week hadn't yet completed!  

o      Enter, Church.  Paul's metrical theme is four 'quarters' of 91 each: sum of the number of sabbatical years in a 490, and the number of Jubilees in a 1050, inter alia.  Setup for the two-walls analogy, in Ephesians 2.  Hence a 'Year' of Church, to Complete Time.   [Also sum of the number of sabbatical years in a 560, see page 15 of http://www.brainout.net/TenWaysThisTimelineDiffers.doc.]

 

¨     So just as Daniel's prayer completed Time so Church could be born from He Who Had No Descendants, Church Bride Body of Christ will complete its 'Year' so that Israel can be reborn in Ezekiel 37, at the Second Advent.  (Nerd note: Ezekiel 37 graphically depicts  RESURRECTION of the PEOPLE of Israel . So it never refers to a current political entity.)

Daniel 9:4-19 Meter Chronology Chart Note C

 

C.  Since the 266=126+70+70, The last two 70's require more explaining.  The first 70 is in the 126; 48 of it, elapsed; the 49th was beginning, when Daniel prays.  So all 49 will be eligible for reimbursement at the end of the year, but can't play until the second 70, completes.  Reimbursement is First in, First out.  So when the first 70 of Jeremiah 25:11-13 (etc.)  completes -- even though the 49 currently occurring is part of it -- the JUDGMENT is a separate accounting item, and thus subject to separate reimbursement.  So when that second 70 completes, only then can the reimbursement of the 49, play.  So the 70 plays back-to-back, 586-446BC.  Then the 49 can be reimbursed.  That's why Daniel's 49-metered paragraphs reference but don't request, the 49 reimbursement.  Those years are accounted here instead, as part of the initial 126 still owing on 1st-Temple time.  That time must be reimbursed first, before new Time can be granted.

 

So Daniel 9:16 invokes hem'teka from Psalm 90:7 (its only occurrence), and his Yashav-nu from  Psalm 90:13, thus juridically spanning his petition basis for the 62 weeks, from Adam's Fall to Moses. This is a tack-on to the basis he'd already established, in verses 6-13, with the history of Israel's kings.  So now the juridical basis of his petition, goes all the way back to Adam.  Which means, he balances his petition to ALL of Allotted History (5250 years, the span in Psalm 90.)

 

Daniel had calculated the allowable time left, so metrically asks for the 62 weeks in Dan 9:16; so he makes sotto-voce tie back to when his prayer totalled 434 syllables, end Dan9:13; which God grants, in Daniel 9:25 and 26.  Idea of voting for what God told him of the future, to actually occur: for God to reimburse 364-year 1st-Temple standing time (which Isaiah 53 ellided between 53:10 and 11), plus a 70-year tack-on. Here's his reasoning: since reimbursing the first 70 only cancels negative time, another 70 is needed to 'return' Time to its positive purpose.  So Daniel invokes the Psalm 90:15 'equal time' clause, hence = 62 'weeks'.  Daniel's prayer is a CONCLUSION based on what he'd been told.

 

And how do we know all this?  From his preceding meter counts, and meter tagging.  Meter tells us what he was THINKING, as he prayed the words.

 

¨     Daniel 9:13 summed 434 syllables, which is the 62 weeks -- of SPENT time.  Past. In Time Track 2, ALL the past, up to the day he prays.  Thus he concluded the indictment begun in verse 4=49 syllables; hence Daniel 9:13 also is 49 syllables, a closing bookend, with 434 as its sum, content, start to end. 56 SHORT.  [This is where Paul will pick up, and why Paul also meters Eph 1:3-14 at 434 syllables.  This is why, like Daniel, Isaiah and Moses, Paul uses metered bookends, too.]

 

¨     So this bad past is basis for reimbursement, since Daniel showed the time was spent negatively.  Negative time means its purpose was not fulfilled, so it needs to be reimbursed, mirrored; restitution made for loss, under the Mosaic Law. Which required paying DOUBLE: Exo 22:4, 7, 9; Rev. 18:6.  That applies to Time, too.

 

¨     Then, Daniel began the hiatal paragraph 9:14, really the preamble of  his petition, which brought the new syllable total to 476, 14 short.  Here he begins a new bookend of 42 syllables, which he'll repeat to 'close', in 9:17.  This bookend is 64 threes, not sevens: 626 syllables at the end of 9:17, minus 434 syllables end verse 13.

 

¨     This new total is a full-circle accounting up to his 607BC captivity on Time Track 1, Daniel 9:14;  but now future, on Time Track 2. Daniel 9:15 continues it, 46 syllables more, as we saw in Note B.  So as of Daniel 9:15, both Time Track 1 and 2 are going into the future.  A future God had told him, since Daniel 2.

 

¨     So Daniel next sets up two requests for Time Future:  reimbursement claim for the 62 weeks SPENT; and, reimbursement claim of the 14 which will be OVERspent, due to Temple reconstruction in that future.  The 62-weeks' reimbursement request occupies verse 16, which is part of the 64 threes, and nominally spans the period of the expected Reconstruction (in Time Track 2), until the next historical Voting Window from Adam's Fall, which begins 467BC. He had already benchmarked that Voting Window back in 9:15 (again via Time Track 2).

 

¨     The actual 62-syllable division of the Time -- as well as this petition for NEW TIME of 62 weeks -- covers the prophecy he was given back since Daniel 2 of the Man of History, which he now has been experiencing:   the end of Babylon, and rise of Persia.  Due to first-in, first-out reimbursement, the 62 weeks wouldn't begin until 397BC, when the voting window closes: 586-70-70-49=397BC.  Ergo verse 16, covering the period when the 62 weeks is needed (in Time Track 2) -- is 62 syllables long.

 

¨     So notice how he's using what he learned:  verse 16 is based on Numbers 14:12-19 reasoning, due to our sins we are a reproach and surrounded, so relent Your All-Righteous anger against Your City, Your Holy Hill. See how the meter gives you context for what he says?  For God's numbers, in response?

 

¨     So now we have a Time Justice problem.  Due to God's Doubling Restitution Law, the 1st-Temple Down Judgment of 70 years BEING spent, must be reimbursed. Psalm 90:15, give us as many good days as we had, bad.

Daniel 9:4-19 Meter Chronology Chart Note C, continued

 

¨     So that means 140 years must play, from the Time Temple Went Down -- but the 1st Temple's remaining 'time bank' was only 126 years, as Isaiah had long warned (950BC dedication, 1Kings 8:1 - 586BC destruction, Jeremiah 52:11-13 is 490-126 years, = 364).  Ergo, 14 short, just as Moses first warned by cutting off 14 from Psalm 90:16+17; which Daniel invokes in Dan9:15, to justify his 476, in Daniel 9:14.  Ergo, negative time needing reimbursement. Clever, huh.  Daniel was a great lawyer.

 

¨     Now for the third 70.  The 62 weeks aka syllables in Daniel 9:16, not only represent bad time already spent and thus due restitution; but good time which likewise gets reward: the 364 years the Temple stood.  However bad Israel was, the Temple stood, and it deserves a reward; so he says in verse 16, turn away your anger from your City, Your Holy Hill.  Not based on the people, but based on the Temple being there, 1Kings 9 contract.  Here's his legal argument:  If while standing Temple got hit with a 70, now being paid off; then a new 70 is  due if Temple stands another 364 years in the future.  No wonder Nebuchadnezzar put Daniel in charge of empire.

 

¨     Note next how Track 1 and 2 intertwine, how Daniel balances between them both. Tally up the number of years' difference between the END of Time Track 1, and the BEGINNING of Time Track 2, in Daniel 9:14.  Treat it as 70 (really, the start of 70th year):  607-538 are the years between the two Time Tracks.

 

¨     Now, do the same thing for each number pair between Time Tracks, through verse 19.  What did you get when you subtracted verse 19's ending 341BC from its Time Track 2 beginning 284BC?  The familiar 57?

 

Well, whaddya know -- that equals the difference between 750-742, with the 750 = number of sevens in a 1050, the very theme of Daniel's prayer (he's praying for his own 1050 to be completed).  And what is 57?  Oh, the number of years per Mosaic Law which precedes what?  THE MILLENNIUM, long depicted as the sum of Passover and Pentecost, Jubilee and Trib, which equals  Messiah's deadline for death. (End of 56 = beginning of 57, like in any birthday.)  For David died 963BC, so Messiah must die no later than 1000 years after that, which Isaiah 53 used for his Chronology of 1078 (David's birth to end Messiah = 1078 syllables = 154 sevens).  No more Time remains.

 

¨     Now, again subtract the difference between the ENDING Time Track 1 date in Daniel 9:7, and the date in Time Track 2.  What's the difference between the two Time Tracks?  Ahhhh, 252 years, equals the interval between David's death  (really, late in 963BC) and 712 BC that Isaiah used, ellipsis between Isaiah 52:15 and 53:1;  and 252 years, between when Asa goes bad, and Manasseh turns good (too late to stop Temple Down)!

 

¨     Of course, by verse 19, the sevened differential (Daniel now tagging himself), equals  266. (End verse 19's syllable count of 742, minus the end of verse 14's syllable count of 476.)  Then divided by  2, = 133. 

¨     133 is the sum of 63, number metaphor of God's Decree set up in Psalm 90:1-3 and reflected in Isaiah 53:9+10 or 10+11;  and,

¨     70, meaning VOTE.  Ouch. 

¨     That 133 is also the number of sevens absent the 120 year Flood precedence (70+50, four generations) in a 1050.  Witness:  1050 = 150 sevens -120 = 931 years, at start of year = 133 sevens.

¨     And the Temple went down, 120 years before the next historical Voting period, 586-466BC (rounding for the fact Temple fell in August).

¨     133 equals Isaiah 52:13 through end of 53:2, when Manasseh is taken captive, which prompts his repentance, but doesn't change God's Decree That the Temple Will Go Down, 2Kings 21:11-15, 23:26, 24:3.

¨     Also 133 = sum of Isaiah 53:9-12, God's other Decree, which saves everyone.  God talking, in both Isaiah sections.

¨     Also, Psalm 90:7 is the 133rd syllable, Adamic pre-Flood observation that men die apoplectic at God in His 'anger' (mirroring theirs, of course).  That's awfully apt to what Daniel says in his own 9:7, huh.   Shamefaced.

¨     And of course Daniel uses hemateka keyword uniquely in Psalm 90:7, here in Daniel 9:16 to ask for the 62 weeks --  balancing Juridical Time all the way back to Adam, as we saw at the beginning of this Note C.

 

Wow, meter sure conveys a lot of doctrine you can prove was in Daniel's mind -- as these are his own syllable counts -- but you can't see much from the text, huh.  Meter which everyone used to index, cross-reference, quote, entertain -- no TV, computers, file cabinets.  Since a book required two oxen to carry it, you learned to memorize prodigiously and fast. And you enjoyed so doing, to evocative meter which exhibited vital doctrine!

Daniel 9:4-19 Meter Chronology Chart Note D

 

D.  Daniel 9:17's 42 syllables, is one-half 84 = God's Complete Decree in Psalm 90.  The 42 is a generation-building number prominent in both Psalm 90:11-13, any pair among  Psalm 90:4, 8, 9, 16; and Isaiah 52:13+14, 53:12.  So Daniel tags these passages for his text in his verses 17 and 14, using them as bookends, like Isaiah did, so to sum at 84.

 

Thus text from verse 14-17, forms a thematic subunit, a Plea for God's Decree -- God's Decree to Rebuild, not a human king's! -- with tagged metrical references as 'citations'.  Note how in all same-metered passages, God expresses His Decree, or is asked to make one.  Including verse 14 (the preamble), this subparagraph sums 64 threes. Excluding it, 50 threes.  50 threes equals 150, and 150 sevens are in a 1050.  What's left over?  14!  Get the wit?  Notice that the threes are symbolic, for they represent Decree Relationships, whereas the sevens, are real time.  A kind of Divine Shorthand you could mull over while threshing wheat, waiting in line for the priest to take your animal sacrifice, etc.  Decree related to TIME.

 

¨     Setup was verse 13, closing The Indictment.  Verse 13 referenced the Written Word which had prescribed all this disaster, and Daniel now prepares to cite that Same Word, for happier prescriptions. 

¨     Verse 14, You Watched Over The Evil, invokes Jeremiah 1, almond metaphor, and 1Kings 9 contract; this is a 42-syllable preamble, first bookend and divisible by seven.   Its corollary claim, by verse 17: Just As You Watched Over The Evil as a consequence of Your Word, Now Watch Over Your Promises -- invoking Psalm 90:12-15, especially verse 15's 'equality-of-days' clause.  [Ergo meter is paired, mirrored, circular, coming back to where it started, as Daniel does with verses 4, 13, 14, the latter two tagging full-circle back to verse 4.]

¨     Verse 15, You Brought Us Out Of Egypt so You would be glorified, invokes Numbers 14:12-19;

¨     Verse 16, Turn From Your Anger Because We (Due To Our Sins) Are A Reproach, And Surrounded. Ibid.

¨     Then verse 17, closing with the same w'attah ("and now") which began this subsection, Listen To The Prayer And Supplication Of Your Servant, And Make Your Face Shine (Again) On Your Desolated Holy Sanctuary: to make Reply, Adonai!  Again invokes Numbers 14, how Moses' face shone, Temple Filling (Shecaniah, 10th priestly course in 1Chron24); and Numbers 6, about how one's 'face' shines when illuminated with Truth.  So too, 1Kings 9, when someone prays toward Your Holy House, You will hear...

¨     Thus you know again why Matthew 1, uses 42 -- to show Moses', Daniel's prayer and Isaiah's prophecy, all got answered by God -- by generating Messiah.

 

E.  Daniel 9:18's 69, admits that the first seven of the Petitioned seventy-sevens, can't play pre-Messiah; just as Isaiah 53:8 showed, balancing to 460BC, the end of 1st Temple's Time.  The 126 remainder ended there; 14 short of the 140 years due on negatively-elapsed time, which instead ends 446BC.  So Isaiah 53's syllables end at 462, not 490.  Temple was rebuilt by 516BC (Isaiah 53:7, end clause 2).  For the sake of the upcoming Voting period, the 7 due on the 49, cannot play pre-Messiah.  Again, first in, first out.  The first loss, is the 7 on the 49.  So it has to be ensconced inside the 62 weeks he just requested, which end with Messiah's lifetime.

 

Notice how the 69 is bookended since verse 7, when Solomon began ruling.  Thus you know Daniel's talking about THIS 'seven', not a different one.  He accounts the whole period as responsible for the SHORTNESS of that one week.  Sum since Daniel 9:7 (which began Time Track 2) is 194 threes;  Verse 18 alone is 23 threes.  God never says Israel missed 70 years.  Easy to know that, too: Saul to Temple Down, 464 years.  Yet heeding Eusebius not Bible,  teachers claim oh, Israel missed 70 sabbatical years. Sigh. We know Solomon didn't miss any sabbatical years, as God gave him to write Ecclesiastes and Proverbs. So look: 930BC Rehoboam begins.  586BC, Temple goes down.  49*7=343 years.  930-586=344 years.  Daniel's prayer would get a 'no' answer, if more missed sabbatical years of 'rest' had to play.  But they did return just after he prayed in 538BC, witness Ezra, Haggai, etc.  So how can that 7 be made up?  It can't;  Israel must be ON the Land; and each year she is, more sabbatical years accrue.

 

So Daniel here debits the extra seven as unplayable, until Messiah.  Messiah was allotted 40 years, so that seven could play during His Time.  Unknown to Christendom, Messiah was allotted the same lifetime as David ruled,

¨     for Messiah had to be born a King no later than the 1000th anniversary of David's Kingship. 

¨     Isaiah thus metered Time in Isaiah 53, theme of First David to Last David, 1078 syllables, with two huge ellipses.

¨     First ellipsis was 252 years between Isaiah 52:15 and 53:1, spanning the number of years between David's death at age 77 (hence 52:13-15=77 syllables), and when Isaiah ministers to Hezekiah, in 712BC.  That's when his chronology becomes current and prophetical, counting down to the end of Allotted Time.

¨     Second ellipsis, 364 years between Isaiah 53:10 and 11, resulting in a countdown to 37AD (use solar years, not lunar). Promise of Temple Standing Time, Reimbursed.  That's when the 62 weeks begins.  Messiah was scheduled to die at the end of the 70-tack on, sum of Isaiah 53:11-12, as the text shows.

Daniel 9:4-19 Meter Chronology Chart Note E, continued

 

¨     For Messiah must be born a King no later than 1004BC-1000, since David died 963BC per 1Kings 6:1;  he became King of all Israel in 1004BC.

¨     Thus Messiah can die by the 1000th anniversary of David's death.  No later.

¨     So the extra seven due can play then, for Messiah is the Redeemer of Time.  He must successfully die BEFORE David's last 1000-year time grant runs out, which is co-terminous. 

¨     So the 62nd week, belongs to Messiah.  If He dies successfully ANY TIME during that week, the extra seven can be redeemed.

 

Notice how this 69 proves the interpretational value of meter.  Dan 9:18's words are very musical.  Generic, like Psalm 90.  Why?  You can claim his words show his emotion, confidence in God's Mercy, surely;  but once you know his meter, you know what Daniel THINKS as he talks.  Since you know 69 was the meter in 9:7, and since you know Daniel tags Isaiah and Psalm 90 via the differential between his own sevened paragraphs, you know Daniel 9:7's first 69 'bookend' for Time Track 2, also referenced Manasseh and the 2 Kings 24 promise, Temple would go down.  So now the generic words have a context.  It's like Star Spangled Banner -- our anthem's words have special meaning only discernible due to their 'backstory'.  Else, 'fuzzball'.  Pretend you found its lyrics absent context, 1000 years from now. Pretend America is long-gone, and you must analyze this 'artifact' all by itself:  whose 'rockets red blare'?  Whose 'flag'? Star Wars?  Sports flag, knight's flag? Many flags have stars, and what does 'spangled' mean?  See: our national anthem is fuzzball, based on words alone.

 

Chronology meter shows the historical meaning behind the words; especially, since you had to memorize by syllable counts, anyway.  Bigger bang for the buck. Moreover, we always have thoughts and ideas behind our words.  Note how deftly Bible meter tells you what they are:  tagging other passages, bookending -- and doctrinal meaning of the numbers, themselves.  So now you are inside Daniel's head; now certain what the verses mean, and in a full-bodied way.  In translation the text is another churchy droning; you learn nothing.  Or worse, you get the false idea that God has eyes or ears, or that He's impressed by long-winded speeches and compliments.

 

Nothing in the text makes you know Daniel has gone through a litany of Israel's history by her kings, though you see him say 'kings' and 'fathers' repeatedly;  but it's only obvious which kings and 'fathers', from the meter.  Daniel benchmarked the good and bad times, made sure his syllable counts balanced to 490, showing when and why short;  and, which other Bible verses on the same subject, tied. He did all this, simply by the meter.  So now you're not surprised to see a 69:  Israel must be debited 'one week' for that hanging-chad 7.  And you know it's part of Messiah's 62nd week from Isaiah53, just as Daniel invokes; that He actually dies SEVEN YEARS SHORT of His Allottment, at the START of that 'week'.  So you know there are TWO SEVENS yet to play: this one, and the Trib.  Thus Paul pregnantly meters Ephesians 1:10, @ 14.

 

F.  Daniel 9:19's last accounting item is thus a net  47, balancing the LAST seven, to the Time Debt owed the Gentiles. It's a net 47+7 in ellipsis = 54, to reimburse the Gentiles for Abraham's too-early maturation.  Again, Daniel's prayer is a conclusion from Bible, plus prophecy he directly received from God.  So, he calculates: pray @ start year 49; 21 years left on the 70. So 54+21-14=47.  The 14 is a foreknown debit as Israel would be reimbursed the doubled 70, but only had 126 years in her Time Bank.  The 54, must close Israel's 'time'.

 

Christendom is uninformed how God accounts Time, so mistakes Daniel 9.  Dispensationalism is known, but as it is originally Jewish, Christendom largely rejects it.

 

o      Adam to Abraham was supposed to run 2100 years; but due to the Flood, Noah matured early and thus Abraham had to as well, To Save Time From Ending.

o      Abraham's maturation, like Noah's, occurred 54 years prior to a deadline: for Noah, deadline was the end of the Flood voting period, 1610 from Adam's fall, but he supermatured by 1556;  for Abraham, deadline equalled 2100 after Adam's Fall; but he supermatured by 2046 (when Noah's 490 ran out).

o      This dual 54-years-early created a running DUAL time credit, as illustrated by Noah entering and leaving the boat 57 days AFTER his birthday, in Genesis 7:11 (LXX text, not Hebrew).  Noah was IN the boat for a complete year, ending Genesis 8:14.

 

o      So notice:  57 + 365 + 57 = 479.  + 21 = 490.  More about how this pattern sets a precedence for all history, will be covered on the next page.

o      For now, just notice that paired 54 became a paired 57.  How, is yet unclear: there are several ways to account it, and I'm yet not sure which method God uses.

o      So 57 ended up an additional hanging chad on the 'end' of Jewish Time, and would be encoded in the Mosaic Law for that reason.  Hence Daniel's reconciliation must balance to it.  And he does so, here.  So Daniel 9:19 balances to that 57, not to the end of the Abrahamic 2100.  For the last 57, completes that 2100.

 

Daniel 9:4-19 Meter Chronology Chart Note F, continued

 

o      For Abraham is the founder of the Jewish people, as God promised in Genesis 12, 15, 17. 

o      So Abraham's '57' must be debited against the 2100 owed Israel, such that

o      Israel still gets her 2100 years, but 57 years prior to 4200 from Adam, a 'time of the Gentiles' must be inserted to 'repay' that credit.

o      Again, the actual years owed are 54; hence the Tribulation is split, the first half being for Israel, and the last half being against her.

o      All this was hard-coded into the Mosaic Law as Jubilee, Passover, Pentecost.

o      So the 57, sometimes expressed as 56 to exclude date of entry or exit, is the most prominent feature in Hebrew meter.

o      Messiah thus had to die by 4200 - 57 years = the 1000th anniversary of David's Death; for that as well, was the OUTER LIMIT of Time for Israel.

o      Hence Daniel leaves the extra 57 in ellipsis.  It is excluded from his summed tally, by 9:19.  (Noah's too-early 54 acts like the 57-day PRE-Flood warning period for the Jews, and is the precedence for Passover WEEK plus Pentecost = 57 days, Numbers 28:26ff. Noah had entered the boat on the equivalent of Pentecost, see http://www.brainout.net/FloodChronoREVISED.doc.)

 

Now, about 'Year'.  Just before Moses dies at the beginning of the 1051st year after the Flood, he crafts the Psalm 90 Meter of Time for Israel to recall: so she'd know what Time it is.  He crafts Psalm 90 to reconcile to both 490 and a 'Year', precedence of the Flood Year, as she long knew from the Mosaic Law:  490 = 364 + 70 + 56 aka 420 + 70.

[365+57, from Noah's birthday to his exit from the Ark, minus days of entry and exit =420.  Noah was born on what would become Passover.  Thus Israel could recall her timing of Passover Week plus Pentecost as akin to the 57 days prior to Noah's entry into the Ark, and 57 days after his birthday, when he left.  Flood's Year became the Pattern of History and Israel's calendar. See Jack Lewis' compilation of the mss and ancient commentary, http://books.google.com/books/about/A_study_of_the_interpretation_of_Noah_an.html?id=mO_H2lVTyhkC.]

 

Hence Daniel 9:14-19 spans 365 years, 57 of which are in ellipsis at the end.  As we saw from the disparity between Time Track 1 and 2 in Note C, Daniel 9:7 started with a disparity of 252 years.  It dwindled down to 70 years, by Daniel 9:14.  Disparity finally ends at 57, by Daniel 9:19; so his final syllable sum of  742, reflects the 56 shortfall (minus day of exit).

 

Moses used 350, to stress Israel's 'Year' would fall short by an additional 14 (sum 364 excludes the day of exit, since that would be the Millennium).  Isaiah 53 had used 462 and says the same thing, accounting instead from the 490 system; hence the double-debit of 14 aka 21 years Rebuilding plus the prophesied extra 7-year shortfall due to missed sabbatical years. 

 

Daniel in effect now balances both to 'Year' and to 490.  We've seen from the Chronology Chart how he reconciles to 490. Now we're seeing how he does it to 'Year'.   [It took only seven years to build the First Temple, but it wasn't dedicated until the beginning of the 21st year, 1Kings 6 - 8. Israel would spend the doubled sevens in hiatus.  So too, she built the 2nd Temple foundation as soon as she got settled in the Land, finishing the foundation on 24 Chislev 537BC, Ezra 3:1, 6-11 compared with Daniel 5:31, Haggai 2.  Then did nothing, as the neighbors took advantage of Cyrus' absence, stirring up trouble (Ezra 4, etc).]

 

So Dan9:14-19's Petition To Restore Time explicitly runs 308 syllables:  742 - 434 = 308, # of days Noah was in Ark on his 601st birthday (use LXX text for the numbers, see http://www.brainout.net/FloodChronoREVISED.doc.).  Then in ellipsis, + 57 = days Noah waited after his birthday before God told him to leave, Gen 8:13-14. 

 

Idea:  life down here is like being in the Ark.  Paul will use that 'Year' doctrine, to create four metered 'quarters' for Church, in Ephesians 1:3-14. He already likened the Ark Time to pregnancy, in Romans 8. (In Greek; it's not clear in English, except that KJV's 'travail' helps you notice a pregnancy analogy.)  He makes 'pregnancy' his meter in Ephesians 1:3-14, too.  Bride of Christ must bear kids, since Christ was pregnant with her, on the Cross.  She was birthed due to His Death, so now is used to birth the Brith Bridge back to the Rebirth of Israel in the Millennium, so to fulfill all those OT promises.  It's the Wifely thing to do.

 

Daniel also seems to know Israel will reject Messiah: Dan 9:19's 47 = 40 years Temple stands to reimburse 'the Land' for Israel's late entry (see Paul account it in Acts 13:20ff).  Plus, the Tribulation. [Paul tags the 47, in his fifth clause of Ephesians 1:3.]

 

So you'll notice in Daniel 9:18 and 19, TWO SEVENS are severally accounted; both of them must play post-Messiah's Advent.  Once He arrives and successfully pays, Time renews.

 

Daniel 9:4-19 Meter Chronology Chart Note F, continued

 

Those TWO SEVENS were the overage, so are accounted net.  There were, a total of five.  The third seven was another hiatus of seven years (making 14, gross);  but it was offset by a fourth seven, the time spent actually rebuilding the Temple seven years (537BC plus 521 through end of 516BC, finishing 3 Adar, Ezra 6:15).  You could instead account the second of the TWO SEVENS as the actual rebuilding time instead of hiatal time.  Here, I just treated the values on a first in, first out basis.  It's clear Daniel netted the values and why, but I'm not sure whether he did it by character, or by occurrence-in-time.  So I chose the latter.

 

The fifth seven is the Tribulation.  In other accounting bases the third and fourth sevens either add to or offset the first TWO SEVENS, so can be confusing.  With respect to the 490, the Tribulation was always part of the last 57 years, since Abraham matured 53.5 years early; so his 'credit' is repaid the Gentiles during that time, leaving the 7 year piece as half-Gentile, half-Jewish in terms of people 'owed'.  The other 50 was separately promised for Harvesting the Gentiles and hence the basis for Jubilee and Pentecost in the Mosaic Law;  but it plays 'inside' the 57.  Hence the accounting issues with respect to the first TWO SEVENS during the hiatal Temple Rebuilding period, have been knotty to explain.  But hopefully you now see their import, and Daniel's accounting of them.

 

For you see Daniel's cry, verse 19:  For Your city and Your people are called by YOUR Name!  You now know he's got the goyim in mind, all salvation hangs on God defending His People, never mind they are wrong, what about the Gentiles who need to hear, Isaiah 52:15; who need the Temple up and running during the upcoming Voting period, 467-397BC?  WHAT ABOUT THE TIME OWED THE GENTILES, who need to Hope In His Name!  Sheer Numbers 14:12ff reasoning, just like Moses.

 

This, prayed by a guy enslaved in a golden cage for 70 years.  No evidence he married or had a social life.  In charge of one of the greatest kingdoms of the ancient world.  Discharged, from 562-539BC when mene mene tekel upharsin, Nebuchadnezzar's nasty grandkid who desecrated Temple goblets, was that same night slain by a long-besieging Gobyras; and then, Daniel was put in charge by an uncle of Cyrus, Darius the Mede, who became Daniel's friend; who died beginning Daniel 10.  Daniel was retired, afterwards. (Hence his three weeks of no nice food or washing. Daniel 10:1 is a notarial declaration just after Darius died, followed by Daniel's own written testimony.)  So, now in his 90's, Daniel again witnessed court intrigues over Cambyses, while Cyrus too was off campaigning, during which he'd die (530BC).  [Daniel 1, three years of training for service, means Daniel had to be 17 or 27 when taken.  Age for government service was either 20 or 30.  By Daniel 9, he's been in captivity for 70 years.]

 

Due to Daniel's prayer, you and I are alive today.  And now you know the meaning of '47', you know he had us in mind.  Isaiah 52:15 is a Decree that the goyim who never heard of Him will know and well understand Him.  It's 35 syllables.  Daniel of course knew that.  So notice:  47-12=35.  And 35, is half a vote.  Here, Daniel's.  Just as Moses voted in Numbers 14:12-19, Psalm 90:12-15, and bid the Jews vote in Psalm 90:16+17.  So a Jew of the 12 tribes now logs his vote, as a plea for God to vote His '35', too.  Based on, the Gentiles.  So God voted 'Yes'.  And we Church, thus exist.  All this will be the theme of Eph1:3-14, Paul playing Daniel, in Eph1:15-23, 3:15-19.  It's the Wifely Thing to do.

 

People don't balance Bible's numbers, dismiss Revelation as allegorical, are slipshod with prophecy passages;  so they don't accurately account for pre-Trib Rapture, even if they believe in it.  Which, most Christians don't.  Meter here dispels all arguments and alternatives:  Tribulation has been owed Israel long before Church existed, due to Abraham, so Rapture can ONLY be pre-Trib.  We only exist due to that same fact: Israel is owed the Time, we are the Bridge Back to that Time, so Christ will arrive ON Time for the PROMISED TIME OWED HIM.  So it's not about how much we should suffer, but about How Much He Already DID Suffer.

 

Moreover, we begin to appreciate better, the fact that God keeps His Promises.  If by contrast we blithely butcher the OT to claim that Church takes over from Israel, like Harold Camping did for his goofball Doomsday predictions (see http://www.brainout.net/CampingTimelineGaffes1.doc and http://www.brainout.net/CampingTimelineGaffes2.doc), we spit in His Face.  We call Him a liar.  We make Israel think that Christ is her enemy.  Which we are,  not Him.  So we become His enemy, and must be punished.  So then whatever we correctly said about Him, also looks wrong.  It's time to stop compromising the Bible in the name of Christian unity and start unifying with God's Word.  Then the Jews will see how He vindicates their hope.  It's the Wifely thing, to do!

 

Once upon a time, Israel learned Bible meter like we learn our ABC's.  To some extent, she still does.  Wouldn't it be nice if we Christians learned it?  Then we'd not be so confused or bored, reading Bible!  End Commercial Message.

 

 

Pronunciation Notes

 

Generally, any language deteriorates over time in three ways: 

 

1) Speech is slurred by later generations, so both consonants and vowels tend to lose their once-distinctive sounds.  So for example, different 'a' sounds would tend to slur into just one 'a' sound by lazy speakers; 'h' or 't' sounds made in different parts of the mouth would tend to all sound the same, being sounded alike in the same part of the mouth.

 

2) Syllables are more rushed due to laziness-of-speech by later generations, often resulting in contractions in the later speech which the ancient speech did not have.  So, for example, 'shema', the command to 'hear' in Deut 6:4, is called 'sh'ma' today, with a flat 'a' (like in Baal).

 

3) Ancient vowels including dipthongs were often compounds of their stand-alone sounds, with crisp pronunciation of each standalone vowel; but in later, lazier speech the ending sound of the vowel (or dipthong) tended to 'take over'.  So for example, an 'ai' combination was pronounced ah+ee, but treated as one syllable.  In later speech, the 'ee' sound 'takes over' and the 'ah' sound is swallowed.

 

Consequently, to parse ancient Bible Hebrew, care must be taken not to use modern Hebrew conventions;  sadly, even seminaries today give into using modern Hebrew speech patterns, passing them off as ancient;  the same sad political game is played with Bible Greek.  Thus you miss important meter information, and have the confusing and useless debates going on today over what is Bible text, whether it has meter, etc.  Better scholars know to ignore the push by modern Hebrew and Greek 'scholars' to use their modern tongue versus the Bible's own.  This battle has gone on for centuries.  Apparently those wanting us to adopt the modern pronunciation consider Bible THEIR property because its language is similar;  so they want to claim the way THEY say it, is THE way to say it.  Of course, then they want to claim THEIR interpretation of it, is THE interpretation of it, since it is written in THEIR language.

 

Seminaries do warn their students to disregard all diacritical marks in the Bible (vowel points and Greek marks for accents or pronunciation).  However in practice often this warning goes unheeded.  Thus mistranslations occur. ('Famously in James 4:5, where pros is mistakenly capitalized, so modern readers think a) James is quoting, and b) is starting a new sentence.  He's not doing either. The fact that pros takes the accusative of hostility is also ignored by readers of the Greek text, hence the mistranslation turns the Holy Spirit into a sinner, and everyone scratches his head!)

 

That being said, there is ancient ellision where the ending of a previous word is much like the beginning of the next, and the waw (now called 'vav') was often swallowed or piggybacked as a slight breath onto the word it prefixed, so is not accounted as a separate syllable.  Also, in poetic speech for the sake of euphony or flow, ellision will occur.  But it will be sparing.  Especially in legal speech, you don't assume ellision or contraction.  So just try to say the words aloud; you'll readily see when ellision or contraction is necessary.  That's how I parsed the text here, as well as for Psalm 90 and Isaiah 53.

 

Parsing speech should be natural, never artificial.  Daniel is talking;  Isaiah was talking;  Moses was talking;  Paul is talking.  So the natural speech, not some artificial construct, should be used, in Bible.  People memorized it that way, so we should parse it that way, too.  Else we'll miss what God is saying, via the meter. 

 

So you might want to revise the parsing, here;  then you'll have to account for Daniel's meter, afresh.  Even one syllable's change might alter the tracking.  Thus we see Bible Hebrew meter is self-auditing:  if I made a mistake in counting, you'll know!  And then will you tell me?  Thank you!

Legend Notes on colors, numbers, and ^{lower-case superscripted} letters

 

Pink numbers are syllable counts per phrase in Hebrew. Because the actual clauses are long, syllable counts often break by phrase, for easier reading.

Black small-font numbers are syllable counts for each verse.

Blue larger font numbers are aggregate syllable counts when the aggregate is NOT divisible by 7.

 

Orange numbers are aggregate syllable counts when the aggregate IS divisible by 7.  That is the standard metered 'paragraph', a rhetorical style of accounting for time underneath the words, which began under Moses (or prior, I didn't check).  I also shaded such paragraphs with a 'space' of yellow to make them easier to spot in printouts.

Other shaded numbers are 'matched' up, to show the meter is deliberately repeated, same style as used by Moses in Psalm 90 and Isaiah in Chapter 53.

 

Teal ^{superscripted} numbers represent the syllable count between the current paragraph and the one prior.  For example, Daniel 9:7's 182 syllables is divisible by 7;  last such 'paragraph' was the end of verse 4, and the difference between 182 and 49, is 133.  The syllable counts generally tie to Psalm 90, Isaiah 53, or Eph1:3-14, as follows:

 

a '49' represents the missed sabbatical years for which Israel was judged, presaged by Ps90:5-7, 10-11.  Cause for the Trib, since 7 years due on the 49 missed are also sabbatical years, and cannot be made up without going past David's time grants (the last of which ends 1000 years after his death, aka 37AD). Notice how Daniel stresses the 49 again, in verse 13's summary, that STILL Israel did not repent during the 48 elapsed years now into the 49th year, when Daniel prays.  Daniel thus bookends his indictment summary with 49: verse 4 starts, verse 13 ends.   Paul stresses these facts in his Eph1:3-14 meter pattern, as 21+28 and 14 combos, plus an explicit 49 in verses 10-11, to show Church will likewise fail.

 

b '24' is the syllable count in Psalm 90:1 OR :2.  Notice the poignant tie in content;  what Millennial believers will be saying, what the Jews should have been saying, versus what Daniel is confessing, in 9:5.  '73' is the aggregate syllable count Paul taps in Ephesians 1:4's third clause, to warn when the Temple will be destroyed, in his Anno-Domini accounting.

 

c '113' pregnantly ties to ka shoresh m'erets tsiyyah in Isaiah 53:2 -- syllable count is the same at the end of that phrase. '40' is the famous number of years in the wilderness.  Some theologians realize that because Israel was 40 years late in getting into the Land, the Temple would have to stay standing another 40 years after her 'time' to 'reimburse' for the lateness.

 

d '133' is a major accumulated balance point in each Isaiah 53 and Psalm 90.  Balances to Psalm 90:7's end, and to each Isa52:13-53:2, 53:9-12's syllable counts.  Isaiah deliberately matched those two 'paragraphs' at 133.  Each of them conveys God's Decree and Foreknowledge of our rejection.  (In between both sections, Isaiah plays the representative believer seeing Christ there on earth, being rejected and judged for our sins.) '182' might tie to Isaiah 53:4's u makhovenu and Psalm 90:10's y'mei shanotenu given the content tie, but I'm not yet sure tracking is meant to tie to a middle of a clause at the exact syllable.  Am still testing that idea.

 

'69', of course, is the 69 sevens.  Gabriel will be dispatched to provide that, as everyone knows even from translation of Daniel 9:24-27.

 

e '30' is a 'savior' number.  Idea that the ruler 'saves' his people.  Joseph became vizier at age 30 (Gen41:46), David became king at age 30 (2Sam5:4), the Lord announced Himself at age 30 (Luke 3:23).

 

 

 

Notes on colors, numbers, and ^{lower-case superscripted} letters, continued

 

f '21' is the syllable count used in Ps 90:4,7,8,16.  Represents TEMPLE Building Time when Israel was IN the Land (537-516BC), and time Jacob spent outside the Land getting a wife (likely precedence, considering the 14).  2x=42, GENERATION BUILDING, used in Isa52:13-14, Matthew 1.

 

g  There are various combinations of 36's in each Psalm 90 and Isaiah 53.  Psalm 90 pairs a 15 with a 21 in verses 3-4, 7-8.  Isaiah uses quadrupled 9-clauses in Isa53:1-2b,53:3b-4a.  Not sure how to interpret the Daniel tie, other than the obvious Trinity-completes-everything meaning.

 

h There are various combinations related to '58'.  The association is 49+7 but also the number of days between Passover and Pentecost, between Pentecost and 9th Av.  If you count the beginning AND the ending dates, you get 58 (by Bible's calendar under David, not using Judaism's calendar).  If you only count one of them, you get 57.  So '58' stresses that Israel wasn't observing her holidays.  For in Bible's calendar, the holidays are all mirrors:  Booths mirrors Passover, Chanukah mirrors Pentecost.  So to stress both beginning and ending of the dates in the first 'half' of her year, is to stress ALL her holidays as being in breach (i.e., if she's not counting time rightly or not observing the holidays in the 'left' half of her calendar, she'll be off in the 'right' half as well).  I tried to show all this in my http://www.brainout.net/HebCal.htm . 

 

That webpage also lists the priestly courses under David.  If each priest relieved his predecessor 2.625 hours later than the previous relief, all the courses would have equal time in serving during a SOLAR year.  For, the priestly courses corresponded to the number of hours in a DAY (idea of a priest being needed before God every HOUR); not, number of months, weeks, or days in a year.  The months were 30 days long, each.  Thus the 'drift' of the year DURING the year, would nonetheless result in each day of each month falling exactly on the anniversary of its preceding year, so long as the priests did this relieving -- which would only complete at the vernal equinox, when the new solar year was to begin.  So long as Israel observed this method, she'd stay on time with no hassles, every year.  Sometime after Solomon she strayed off, and of course eventually stopped even observing her holidays.

 

The '58' doubled would thus represent Passover to Pentecost, counting both beginning and ending;  plus, Pentecost to 9th Av when the Temple goes down (Jeremiah 52:12-13).. twice.  Second time is called Tish b'Av today by the Jews, and represents the date the 2nd Temple burned down, which we call 28-29 August, 70AD.  It would be 73 AD as Paul seems to warn about in his second clause of Eph1:4's meter.  See, allegedly Christ was born the 753rd year from the founding of Rome;  the Catholics somehow truncated that to 750BC, and thus chopped off three years.  As a result, you can't really just add 3 years to our AD dates or subtract 3 from our BC dates: each scholar's AD and BC dates aren't uniformly determined.  So commonly-accepted dates need to be vetted for how their BC or AD result was derived.  Years prior to 45BC also might be derived from non-Roman sources, so again you can't just add or subtract a uniform number.  You must first know how the 'scholar' derived the date.

 

'203' is the total number of syllables in Isaiah 52:13 through the end of verse 4, where in Isaiah's annual chronology (at syllable 203) the Temple is destroyed.  Obviously Daniel ties his verse to the end of Isa53:4.

 

'385' is the total number of syllables in Isaiah 53:1-53:12, where Isaiah begins his own report of his own time.  The prior verses in Isaiah 53 (from 52:13 in our English Bibles) pick up the time baton from Moses (who stopped his annual chronology at 1050BC); 42 sevens (Isa52:13-14 is 42 syllables) representing 754 BC when Jeroboam II died (1050-754 or 3, probably with adjustment for beginning and ending of year); and also 1040 BC when David was born: 252 years in ellipsis between Isaiah 52:15 and 53:1, if syllable 1 is David's birth year.  Daniel's prayer meter will reference those 252 years AFTER he finishes the 490 indictment (chopping off the 14 years overbudgeted) in Daniel 9:13. (Daniel 9:15-19's syllables equal 266, which is 252+14.)

 

 

Notes on colors, numbers, and ^{lower-case superscripted} letters, continued

 

i '434' Obviously Daniel 9:25 is patterned from Daniel's prayer meter in this verse 13.  That meter is patterned from the 49s (see note a above), and also from Isaiah 53, which leaves 364 years in ellipsis between 53:10 and 11; it represents Temple Standing Time.  Isaiah had plotted that prophetically, by starting Isa53:1 in 712 BC, which was 126 years before the Temple would go down.  Then, counting to syllable 203, is 586BC, which is 126 years short of the Temple's allotment from 950BC to 460BC.  Isaiah thus also predicts the Temple restoration and the 70 years, showing how the 126 years is made up again, ending at the same 460BC.  That makes the Temple's past time eligible for reimbursement upon its predicted completion.  So Daniel sums syllables in ellipsis plus Isaiah 53:11-12, to get his 434-year subtotal, here.  That, of course, equals the 62 weeks, hence God's reimbursement reply in verse 25.  Notice how the 49 precedes, reimbursing for the 49 missed sabbatical years, thus causing the second 7.  However, since those are new years, the second seven can be part of the 434 -- but notice how that second seven becomes the 62nd week.  Paul will use that fact as the basis for his meter (which totals 434), since Christ was killed seven years earlier than scheduled, in Eph1:3-14.  That's why Eph1:15-23 is a prayer parallel to Daniel's here, and why Ephesians 2 talks about Two Temples.  And all that, plays out Moses prayer in Psalm 90:15!

 

j '42' is a palindrome in Ps 90:11-13, 14-15, and any two of its 21's, noted in f above.  Paul will repeat that palindrome in Eph 1:6-7 (adds up to 42 using Isaiah's style, forward and backward).  Also, 1/2 of Ps90:1-4.  Isaiah makes Isa52:13-14 into 42 syllables, as explained above regarding '385', but the 42 is also used to show how the Psalm 90 decree (verses 1-4) is answered by God from First to Last David, so Isaiah splits the 2nd 42 into Isa53:12, the victorious ending.

 

'476' is pregnantly short of 490 by the famous 14 syllables, ending Daniel's legal summation of the case, and the deserved punishment which also gave rise to the 14 shortfall.  So after this, Daniel invokes Psalm 90:16-17 to make his prayer -- his petition after verse 14 is an elaborate form of the very petition Moses recorded.  So Daniel claims reimbursement based on Psalm 90:15 using this meter, having summarized the court case through verse 14.  Since both Psalm 90 and Isaiah 53 are less than 476 syllables, Daniel in essence is keying off them both to make a petition for NEW time.

 

k '62' of course, is the 62 weeks; petition for reimbursement based on the 364 ellipsis years representing 1st Temple's Standing Time, plus Isaiah 53:11-12.  Idea to realize the purpose of that prophecy.

 

l '69' of course, is the 69 weeks that Daniel requests, since he already knows the last week can't play:  it is an added 7 sabbatical years owed on the 48 (and soon 49) years just elapsed: that's why Isaiah 53:9-10 debits seven years in the 2nd (reimbursed) 70 years (which play from 516AD to 446AD).

 

m  '742' ends his petition, which equals 490+252+14, aka 252+364+126.  See also footnote h.  He's doing some very sophisticated accounting here -- dating back to the Flood, just like Moses does.  Some of that sophistication is explained in Footnote E's Track 3.