Daniel’s 42nd week

[Cyberseeker]

I think we have thrashed ‘Daniel’s 70th Week’ enough so here is a new approach. Let’s discuss the earlier ‘weeks’ - ones that are often overlooked.

Before starting can we please realise that Daniels ‘weeks’ are not a stand-alone period that suddenly popped up during the Persian period. The ‘weeks’ are intrinsically part of a wider Sabbatic and Jubilee cycles which began before Moses. Several lots of ‘70 weeks’ (eras of 490 years) can be traced in the internal chronology of the Old Testament and they are split into blocks of seven years (shmita) some of which can be dated quite accurately. They are a calendar.

Anyway, I’ll start my next post with a table of dates of the final block of seventy ‘weeks.’ Then I would like to expand on some of the earlier ‘weeks’ - ones that don’t often get a mention.

 

[Cyberseeker]

Here is what I believe is an accurate dating of Daniels 70 weeks. Please count the figures inclusively ie. they are all blocks of seven years, the final one always being a Sabbath. (Leviticus 25:1-7)
The coloured lines are Jubilee heptads the first year being the year of Jubilee. (Leviticus 25: 8)

1st week 457 – 451 BC
2nd week 450 – 444 BC
3rd week 443 – 437 BC
4th week 436 – 430 BC
5th week 429 – 423 BC
6th week 422 – 416 BC
7th week 415 – 409 BC
8th week 408 – 402 BC
9th week 401 – 495 BC
10th wk 394 – 388 BC
11th wk 387 – 381 BC
12th wk 380 – 374 BC
13th wk 373 – 367 BC
14th wk 366 – 360 BC
15th wk 359 – 353 BC
16th wk 352 – 346 BC
17th wk 345 – 339 BC
18th wk 338 – 332 BC
19th wk 331 – 325 BC
20th wk 324 – 318 BC
21st wk 317 – 311 BC
22nd wk 310 – 304 BC
23rd wk 303 – 297 BC
24th wk 296 – 290 BC
25th wk 289 – 283 BC
26th wk 282 – 276 BC
27th wk 275 – 269 BC
28th wk 268 – 262 BC
29th wk 261 – 255 BC
30th wk 254 – 248 BC
31st wk 247 – 241 BC
32nd wk 240 – 234 BC
33rd wk 233 – 227 BC
34th wk 226 – 220 BC
35th wk 219 – 213 BC
36th wk 212 – 206 BC
37th wk 205 – 199 BC
38th wk 198 – 192 BC
39th wk 191 – 185 BC
40th wk 184 – 178 BC
41st wk 177 – 171 BC
42nd wk 170 – 164 BC
43rd wk 163 – 157 BC
44th wk 156 – 150 BC
45th wk 149 – 143 BC
46th wk 142 – 136 BC
47th wk 135 – 129 BC
48th wk 128 – 122 BC
49th wk 121 – 115 BC
50th wk 114 – 108 BC
51st wk 107 – 101 BC
52nd wk 100 – 94 BC
53rd wk 93 – 87 BC
54th wk 86 – 80 BC
55th wk 79 – 73 BC
56th wk 72 – 66 BC
57th wk 65 – 59 BC
58th wk 58 – 52 BC
59th wk 51 – 45 BC
60th wk 44 – 38 BC
61st wk 37 – 31 BC
62nd wk 30 – 24 BC
63rd wk 23 – 17 BC
64th wk 16 – 10 BC
65th wk 9 – 3 BC
66th wk 2 – 5 AD
67th wk 6 – 12 AD
68th wk 13 – 19 AD
69th wk 20 – 26 AD
70th wk 27 – 33 AD​

 

[Sinthesis]

Here is what I believe is an accurate dating of Daniels 70 weeks. Please count the figures inclusively ie. they are all blocks of seven years, the final one always being a Sabbath. (Leviticus 25:1-7)
The coloured lines are Jubilee heptads the first year being the year of Jubilee. (Leviticus 25: 8)

1st week 457 – 451 BC
2nd week 450 – 444 BC
3rd week 443 – 437 BC
4th week 436 – 430 BC
5th week 429 – 423 BC
6th week 422 – 416 BC
7th week 415 – 409 BC
8th week 408 – 402 BC
9th week 401 – 495 BC
10th wk 394 – 388 BC
11th wk 387 – 381 BC
12th wk 380 – 374 BC
13th wk 373 – 367 BC
14th wk 366 – 360 BC
15th wk 359 – 353 BC
16th wk 352 – 346 BC
17th wk 345 – 339 BC
18th wk 338 – 332 BC
19th wk 331 – 325 BC
20th wk 324 – 318 BC
21st wk 317 – 311 BC
22nd wk 310 – 304 BC
23rd wk 303 – 297 BC
24th wk 296 – 290 BC
25th wk 289 – 283 BC
26th wk 282 – 276 BC
27th wk 275 – 269 BC
28th wk 268 – 262 BC
29th wk 261 – 255 BC
30th wk 254 – 248 BC
31st wk 247 – 241 BC
32nd wk 240 – 234 BC
33rd wk 233 – 227 BC
34th wk 226 – 220 BC
35th wk 219 – 213 BC
36th wk 212 – 206 BC
37th wk 205 – 199 BC
38th wk 198 – 192 BC
39th wk 191 – 185 BC
40th wk 184 – 178 BC
41st wk 177 – 171 BC
42nd wk 170 – 164 BC
43rd wk 163 – 157 BC
44th wk 156 – 150 BC
45th wk 149 – 143 BC
46th wk 142 – 136 BC
47th wk 135 – 129 BC
48th wk 128 – 122 BC
49th wk 121 – 115 BC
50th wk 114 – 108 BC
51st wk 107 – 101 BC
52nd wk 100 – 94 BC
53rd wk 93 – 87 BC
54th wk 86 – 80 BC
55th wk 79 – 73 BC
56th wk 72 – 66 BC
57th wk 65 – 59 BC
58th wk 58 – 52 BC
59th wk 51 – 45 BC
60th wk 44 – 38 BC
61st wk 37 – 31 BC
62nd wk 30 – 24 BC
63rd wk 23 – 17 BC
64th wk 16 – 10 BC
65th wk 9 – 3 BC
66th wk 2 – 5 AD
67th wk 6 – 12 AD
68th wk 13 – 19 AD
69th wk 20 – 26 AD
70th wk 27 – 33 AD​

42nd week?

 

[Cyberseeker]

Daniels 2nd week – A major revival

Hi Sinthesis, Ill get to the 42nd week but first I want to discuss some of the other less known weeks that don't often get discussed. Join in if anything grabs you.

Daniels 2nd week – A major revival

Reading Nehemiah chapters 8-10 we find one of the biggest religious revivals that ever happened in the history of Israel, under the preaching of Ezra. Perhaps the reform that happened in King Josiah’s time was greater but this one was a biggie. (God, we need one now! ) The people wept; the people rejoiced; debts were cancelled and a profound revival broke out. This happened in September-October 444 BC and the impact was felt for many years after that.

What is not so well known today is how it happened in a Sabbatical year (ie. a ‘seven’) so it is related to the 70-weeks prophecy. It happened at the end of the second ‘week.’ Now, the date is confirmed from historical records because it was the 20th year of king Artaxerxes reign. But the matter of it being a Sabbath is deduced from a practice laid down in Mosaic law. Here is our clue in Deuteronomy 31:10-12.

“At the end of every seven years, in the year for cancelling debts, during the Festival of Tabernacles, when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose, you shall read this law before them in their hearing. Assemble the people - men, women and children, and the foreigners residing in your towns - so they can listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and follow carefully all the words of this law.”

This is what Ezra and Nehemiah were doing; they were following strictly the rule prescribed by Moses to gather the people and read the law in the month of Tishri on the seventh year. This is when revival broke out, but the point to notice: the year 444 BC was a Sabbath year.

Now, if you don’t mind me saying so, this is very significant. Why? Because it means we can calculate increments of seven from a confirmed date and uncover the rest of the 7-year cycle. Christian Bible scholars usually assume the shmita was lost but it is not lost at all. Please look at the last column in my table of dates. We are looking at actual, original Sabbath years!

Even more significant are the ramifications for students of Daniel’s prophecy. Each week ends with a Sabbath so now we know their dates. It clarifies small chronological issues enabling us to count more accurately than our nineteenth century teachers who did not have access to all the historical data. For example, a lot of prophetic theory is based on the calculations of Sir Robert Anderson who published his book, ‘The Coming Prince’ in 1895. His dates were slightly out. So was the Adventist movement slightly out, whose dates were based on chronology from the 1840’s.

In conclusion, the revival of 444 BC provides us with a solid date that unlocks the previously ‘lost’ Sabbath years. This directly impacts on our previous estimates of Daniels ‘weeks’ because they are intrinsically part of the Sabbath / Jubilee system.

Next post: The 62 weeks – Why Daniel didn’t say 69

 

[Mtwildman]

Why do people continually want to turn what God teaches and tells us in scripture to mean or say something it does not??? We can clearly see through scripture that when God said day, week, year or series of days, weeks or years he ment just that a day meaning a day a week meaning a week a year meaning a year! Why would it suddenly be any different in the book of Daniel speeking of the 70 weeks?? The reason is that a literal 70 weeks does not fit with the false teachings in todays churches. Never once did God express that a day was a year or a week a year or a year anything but what is stated. If that was the case why in one place do the churches teach a day as a year in another place they teach a week as a year?? Which is it a day a week or a year?? How is it most teachings talk of the seventy weeks being years until the 70th week, it suddenly becomes seven years to fit there seven year tribulation lie. So then we will see 2 Peter 3:3-4 come to pass.
2 Peter 3:3-4 (KJV)
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

For even the unbelieving know of the teachings of the seven year tribulation teaching. So when Christ does not return at the time these serpants have been teaching many shall fall away with unbelief and fear thinking they have been left behind, because this teaching teaches that the day after the rapture (so called) the world will go around wondering what happen to all these people, where did they go. This is crazy. Scripture clearly teaches... Revelation 1:7 (KJV)
7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
If I may, LORD willing, be afforded the time I would like to go throught the entire end time teaching from scripture, but it will take many weeks to get through.

 

[Sinthesis]

If I may, LORD willing, be afforded the time I would like to go throught the entire end time teaching from scripture, but it will take many weeks to get through.

Feel free to start your own thread.

 

[Cyberseeker]

Daniels 7th week – Closing of the prophets

“Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks.†(Daniel 9:25)

We talk endlessly about the 69 weeks and more particularly, the seventieth week. But Daniel did not mention sixty-nine; he said 7 plus 62. It’s us who add them together. Obviously they follow on from each other so we just scratch our head, add them up and try to forget he wrote it funny. Well, I can’t speak for everyone else but that’s what I used to do.

So why did Daniel say, “there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks?†Why didn’t he simply say sixty-nine and be done with it? To be fair, commentators do try to make suggestions. The most common one is that it took 7 ‘weeks’ (49 years) to restore and rebuild the city. ‘Problem is that it took much less than that. The wall, for example, only took 52 days getting completed in 444BC (Neh 6:15) way before the 7th week. The temple had been built long beforehand too. When Nehemiah was governor most of the task had been done including building private houses. So the city construction explanation doesn’t adequately explain Daniel’s significant sounding 7 plus 62.

A better answer emerges when we examine the dates more closely. The seven ‘weeks’ (49 years) span from the Emperors command in 457 BC to 409 BC. Now that is interesting because it is also contemporary with the final prophet Malachi, whose ministry came slightly after Nehemiah, and after which the prophets fell silent. He was the last; there were no more; the Old Testament canon was complete! So, I believe the seven ‘weeks’ predicted the time remaining of the prophetic voice after which the prophets closed.

What then are the sixty-two weeks? They must be the ‘silent years,’ the inter-testament period when the prophets no longer spoke. Why should they speak? The countdown to Messiah was speaking for itself. Then sure enough, four hundred and thirty four years (62*7) from 409 BC landed smack-bang on AD26, when the prophetic voice resumed. (Luke 3:1-6)

My pennies worth about the 7 plus 62. Does it make sense?

 

[Sinthesis]

Re: Daniels 7th week – Closing of the prophets

We talk endlessly about the 69 weeks and more particularly, the seventieth week. But Daniel did not mention sixty-nine; he said 7 plus 62. It’s us who add them together. Obviously they follow on from each other so we just scratch our head, add them up and try to forget he wrote it funny. Well, I can’t speak for everyone else but that’s what I used to do.

So why did Daniel say, “there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks?†Why didn’t he simply say sixty-nine and be done with it? To be fair, commentators do try to make suggestions. The most common one is that it took 7 ‘weeks’ (49 years) to restore and rebuild the city. ‘Problem is that it took much less than that. The wall, for example, only took 52 days getting completed in 444BC (Neh 6:15) way before the 7th week. The temple had been built long beforehand too. When Nehemiah was governor most of the task had been done including building private houses. So the city construction explanation doesn’t adequately explain Daniel’s significant sounding 7 plus 62.

A better answer emerges when we examine the dates more closely. The seven ‘weeks’ (49 years) span from the Emperors command in 457 BC to 409 BC. Now that is interesting because it is also contemporary with the final prophet Malachi, whose ministry came slightly after Nehemiah, and after which the prophets fell silent. He was the last; there were no more; the Old Testament canon was complete! So, I believe the seven ‘weeks’ predicted the time remaining of the prophetic voice after which the prophets closed.

What then are the sixty-two weeks? They must be the ‘silent years,’ the inter-testament period when the prophets no longer spoke. Why should they speak? The countdown to Messiah was speaking for itself. Then sure enough, four hundred and thirty four years (62*7) from 409 BC landed smack-bang on AD26, when the prophetic voice resumed. (Luke 3:1-6)

My pennies worth about the 7 plus 62. Does it make sense?

Thats how I see it.

 

[Cyberseeker]

Re: Daniels 7th week – Closing of the prophets

Thats how I see it.

Wow, someone agrees with me! :nod Thanks for reading my humble musings. (lol)

 

[Elijah674]

Re: Daniels 7th week – Closing of the prophets

Thats how I see it.

My pennies worth about the 7 plus 62. Does it make sense? By Josh!

No, not really!;) What is your purpose???

Now if you want to go through the total 2300 days, get with it? But why not start with the 7 yr. 'midst of the week' where there is some common ground around Christ death of close to 'zero'. (some say 5) But He was around 30. Luke 3:23 (Began to be about 30) And then go forward & backwards & see where you come up 'close' to?

Personally I like Christ's 27 AD Annointing of the Father at His Baptism of John, and then to the 'midst' of the week 3 1/2 years later for the midst of the week. Then 3 1/2 more up unto 34 AD at the Calling of Paul to the Gentils. 7 years, & the midst of the week find's Christ's heavenly Sanctuary with earth's Sanctuary vail removed into the Most Holy Place. And inside of Heavens Most Holy place Christ is our High Priest before the Ark of God.

But 'i' will not derail your thread!;) :waving

--Elijah

 

[Cyberseeker]

Re: Daniels 7th week – Closing of the prophets

... why not start with the 7 yr. 'midst of the week' where there is some common ground around Christ death ...

Because this thread is not about the 70th week. Its about the other ones.

Like I mention in the opening post we will get to the 42nd week. I hope you find it interesting.

 

[Mtwildman]

Cyberseeker: Here is the scripture from Daniel that speeks of the 70 weeks. it is broken down into three parts. The first seven weeks is when the commandment goes forth to rebuild, this would be the planning stage. the 62 weeks is the actual time it will take to rebuild, then the 70th week is when the sacrifices will start and end again.

Daniel 9:20-27 (KJV)
20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Elijah674: If we teach that this time has already been fulfilled then the resurrection would be over.

2 Timothy 2:14-18 (KJV)
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

 

[Vic C.]

Elijah674: If we teach that this time has already been fulfilled then the resurrection would be over.

There are many threads where we have hashed out the details of separating the 70th. week from any future events. It doesn't affect His coming or the resurrection. Cyberseeker and others have topics on this if you care to search for them.

Lets stick to the 42nd. week, as per the OP. :nod

 

[Elijah674]

Re: Daniel’s 42nd week

[Elijah674: If we teach that this time has already been fulfilled then the resurrection would be over.]

Vick says:


There are many threads where we have hashed out the details of separating the 70th. week from any future events. It doesn't affect His coming or the resurrection. Cyberseeker and others have topics on this if you care to search for them.

Lets stick to the 42nd. week, as per the OP. :nod
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Off subject again. But did I say that? See post 12 perhaps, for the author which had just said that above to me?

I think that my reply was to Josh that I would not try to derail the Josh post. And I have NO interest in the 42nd week.

--Elijah

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[Vic C.]

No, it wasn't you. Post 12 was the main reason why I posted the reminder. I am fully aware that the poster of post #12 was "talking" to you. We need to remember the topic is on the 42nd. week. :yes

Re: Daniel’s 42nd week

[Elijah674: If we teach that this time has already been fulfilled then the resurrection would be over.]

Vick says:


There are many threads where we have hashed out the details of separating the 70th. week from any future events. It doesn't affect His coming or the resurrection. Cyberseeker and others have topics on this if you care to search for them.

Lets stick to the 42nd. week, as per the OP. :nod
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Off subject again. But did I say that? See post 12 perhaps, for the author which had just said that above to me?

I think that my reply was to Josh that I would not try to derail the Josh post. And I have NO interest in the 42nd week.

--Elijah

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[Cyberseeker]

Daniels 42nd week – Sabbatic cycle confirmed

Thanks Vic.

OK, let’s have a look at the 42nd week of Daniel. As shown in the chart it extends from 170 BC to 164 BC. Now, a ‘week’ is a block of seven years in the old Hebrew calendar similar to our ‘decade’ but smaller. The final seventh year was always a Sabbath and that was when the land was rested. (Leviticus 25:1-7) So the 42nd week of Daniel looked like this:

Year 1 – 170 BC
Year 2 – 169 BC
Year 3 – 168 BC
Year 4 – 167 BC
Year 5 – 166 BC
Year 6 – 165 BC
Year 7 – 164 BC (Sabbatical)​

The obvious question will be, “Is there any independent evidence that 164 BC was a Sabbath year?†The answer is yes, and it is found in the war of the Maccabees:

“They came forth out of the city, because they had no victuals, being shut up there, for it was the year of rest to the land. And the king took Bethsura: and he placed there a garrison to keep it. And he turned his army against the sanctuary for many days: and he set up there battering slings, and engines and instruments to cast fire, and engines to cast stones and javelins, and pieces to shoot arrows, and slings. And they also made engines against their engines, and they fought for many days. But there were no victuals in the city, because it was the seventh year: and such as had stayed in Judea of them that came from among the nations, had eaten the residue of all that which had been stored up.†(1 Maccabees 6:49-53)

Bethsura surrendered to the Greek army because their supplies had run out, with no crops in the ground because it was fallow. And the year of the Greek invasion … ? 164 BC!

This brings us back to the point I made about 444 BC being a Sabbath year. It means we can calculate increments of seven from confirmed dates and uncover the rest of the 7-year cycle. We now have TWO confirmed dates. This means the actual, original Sabbath years can be followed backwards to Moses and followed forwards to Christ! It impacts on our previous estimates of Daniels ‘weeks’ since they are part of the Sabbath / Jubilee system. Most importantly, it shows that Christ is the fulfillment of the Jubilee. (Luke 4:16-21)

Helloooo. Anybody interested in this stuff?

 

[Lehigh3]

Helloooo. Anybody interested in this stuff?

Well not really, I mean I like new moons a little, sabbaths I never cared about , but being it in "end-times" I just like that you have Daniel's 70th wk. fulfilled.

Do you think that the last "half a week" was not fulfilled until AD67-70.5 for those Jews who did not follow Christ, & those holy people & that holy city got shattered in that generation?

I do.

from your post #2:
70th wk 27 – 33 AD

 

[Stormcrow]

Re: Daniels 42nd week – Sabbatic cycle confirmed

Thanks Vic.

OK, let’s have a look at the 42nd week of Daniel. As shown in the chart it extends from 170 BC to 164 BC. Now, a ‘week’ is a block of seven years in the old Hebrew calendar similar to our ‘decade’ but smaller. The final seventh year was always a Sabbath and that was when the land was rested. (Leviticus 25:1-7) So the 42nd week of Daniel looked like this:

Year 1 – 170 BC
Year 2 – 169 BC
Year 3 – 168 BC
Year 4 – 167 BC
Year 5 – 166 BC
Year 6 – 165 BC
Year 7 – 164 BC (Sabbatical)​

The obvious question will be, “Is there any independent evidence that 164 BC was a Sabbath year?” The answer is yes, and it is found in the war of the Maccabees:

Bethsura surrendered to the Greek army because their supplies had run out, with no crops in the ground because it was fallow. And the year of the Greek invasion … ? 164 BC!

This brings us back to the point I made about 444 BC being a Sabbath year. It means we can calculate increments of seven from confirmed dates and uncover the rest of the 7-year cycle. We now have TWO confirmed dates. This means the actual, original Sabbath years can be followed backwards to Moses and followed forwards to Christ! It impacts on our previous estimates of Daniels ‘weeks’ since they are part of the Sabbath / Jubilee system. Most importantly, it shows that Christ is the fulfillment of the Jubilee. (Luke 4:16-21)

Helloooo. Anybody interested in this stuff?

I think you've nailed this stuff. Good work! And in keeping with that line of thought, the 43rd week looks like this:

Year 1 – 163 BC
Year 2 – 162 BC
Year 3 – 161 BC
Year 4 – 160 BC
Year 5 – 159 BC
Year 6 – 158 BC
Year 7 – 157 BC (Sabbatical)

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And what's significant about 157 BC?

In 159 BC, the Seleucid General Bacchides came to Jerusalem and took high-ranking Jewish official's sons hostage and put them in one of the Temple's towers as prisoners there.

One of his commanders, Alcimus, issued orders that the walls of the inner court of the Temple be pulled down, and also had the "works of the prophets" destroyed. However, as he began to have the walls pulled down, he was stricken "with a palsy" that prevented him from speaking and quickly led to his death.

When Alcimus died, Bacchides returned to Seleucia (near Antioch, Syria) and spent the next 2 years there, giving the Maccabees a two-year respite from the war.

During this time, however, Hellenized Jews in Jerusalem (who started the whole civil war with their Orthodox brethern, calling Antiochus IV to assist them) went to Bacchides and told him the Maccabees were "dwelling without care" and assured him this would be the time to strike.

So in 157 BC, Bacchides returned to Judea with a fresh army to quell the Maccabean Revolt once and for all. Here's how that story ended:

{64} Then went he and laid siege against Bethbasi; and they fought against it a long season and made engines of war. {65} But Jonathan left his brother Simon in the city, and went forth himself into the country, and with a certain number went he forth.

{66} And he smote Odonarkes and his brethren, and the children of Phasiron in their tent. {67} And when he began to smite them, and came up with his forces, Simon and his company went out of the city, and burned up the engines of war,

{68} And fought against Bacchides, who was discomfited by them, and they afflicted him sore: for his counsel and travail was in vain. {69} Wherefore he [Bacchides] was very wroth at the wicked men that gave him counsel to come into the country, inasmuch as he slew many of them, and purposed to return into his own country.

{70} Whereof when Jonathan had knowledge, he sent ambassadors unto him, to the end he should make peace with him, and deliver them the prisoners. {71} Which thing he [Bacchides] accepted, and did according to his demands, and sware unto him that he would never do him harm all the days of his life. {72} When therefore he had restored unto him the prisoners that he had taken aforetime out of the land of Judea, he returned and went his way into his own land, neither came he any more into their borders.

{73} Thus the sword ceased from Israel: but Jonathan dwelt at Machmas, and began to govern the people; and he destroyed the ungodly men out of Israel. 1 Maccabees 9:63-73 (KJVApocrypha)

157 BC: another "Sabbath year" in Daniel's "70 weeks" when the Jewish war with the Seleucids ended.

 

[Sinthesis]

Neat thread!

 

[Osgiliath]

Agree with Sinthesis - very neat thread. Just a little thing to add that might clear a few things up for some. Gabriel told Daniel that from the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Anointed One (the Messiah) would appear, there would be 7 weeks and 62 weeks. Why didn't Gabriel just say, 69 weeks? The answer is in the language. Four decrees were given to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, but only one occurs at the beginning of a Jubilee period of 49 years (always a Sunday Year synchronized with the year of the Exodus - 1437 B.C.).

Four decrees were issued for the restoration of Jerusalem. Cyrus gave the 1st decree in the Friday year of 536 B.C. (Ezra 1); Darius gave the 2nd decree in the Monday Year of 519 B.C. (Ezra 6); Artexerxes gave the 3rd and 4th decrees in the Sunday Year of 457 B.C. and the Sabbath Year of 444 B.C. (Ezra 7 and Nehemiah 2).

The reason for the split between 7 weeks and 62 weeks is because it is the only way to determine WHICH decree to count from. Gabriel gave a clue about the timing of the decree from which God will count the 69 weeks by stating it the way he did. Gabriel explains to Daniel that the decree to watch for is THE decree that occurs at the beginning of a Jubilee period. That decree was given in 457 B.C. and that decree alone meets the timing specifications of this prophecy. It is the only decree out of the four that occurs at the beginning of a Jubilee period (i.e. - 7 Weeks - 49 years). That is why it is worded "7 weeks and 62 weeks" rather than simply stating "69 weeks."