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The 490 Years of Daniel 9:24-27

The 490 years of Daniel 9:24-27 stretch from the decree to restore Jerusalem in 444 B.C. to the second coming of Christ. There is a gap between the sixty-ninth and seventieth weeks in which Jesus was crucified and Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans (Dan 9:26), In the seventieth week the antichrist will make a

The Order of the Books of the Hebrew Canon as Background to Understanding Daniel 9

What would the order of the books of the Old Testament canon have to do with the interpretation of Daniel? The last three books of the Hebrew canon from the first century A.D. were Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, and Chronicles. Ezra-Nehemiah initially was one book as was First and Second Chronicles. Second Chronicles ends with a verb,

To Which Covenants was Nehemiah Appealing in His Prayers?

In praying to God in Nehemiah 1:5, Nehemiah appeals to God as the one "who preserves the covenant." The covenant to which he is appealing is the Mosaic Covenant, first given in Exodus 20 and then renewed in Exodus 34 and in the Book of Deuteronomy. In his prayer of Nehemiah 9, he is appealing

The Chiasm of Leviticus 26:39

A chiasm is a literary structure where the words of the first section of a passage are repeated in reverse order in the second. Typically whatever is in the center of the chiasm is what is being emphasized. In Leviticus 26:39, the emphasis is on the curses for their past iniquity. https://www.howthebiblefitstogether.org/files/Lev-26.39a-Chiasm.pdf

The Chiasm of Leviticus 26:29

A chiasm is a literary structure where the words of the first section of a passage are repeated in reverse order in the second. Typically whatever is in the center of the chiasm is what is being emphasized. In Leviticus 29:29 the emphasis is on the curse of their eating the flesh of their sons

The Chiasms of Leviticus 26:21-28

A chiasm is a literary structure where the words or themes of the first section of a passage are repeated in reverse order in the second. In Leviticus 26:21-28 there are two adjoining chiasms with Leviticus 56:23-24 being part of both of them. https://www.howthebiblefitstogether.org/files/Lev-26.21-28a-Chiasm.pdf