Reason #10:
"In Old Testament poetry, days and years are employed in synonymous parallelism. Please notice the following examples: Job 10:5; 15:20; 32:7; Deuteronomy 32:7; Psalm 77:5.
A very interesting text is Psalm 90:9-10 where the translation, "years of our lives" literally reads in Hebrew, ‘the days of our years’.
In every place where the Old Testament couples days with years, the word ‘day’ is in the ‘A’ line and the word ‘year’ is in the ‘B’ line. Regarding this, the Old Testament scholar, William Shea comments:
"When we come to the occurrence of the word ‘days’ in the time prophecies, therefore, an ancient Semite whose mind was steeped in this parallelistic type of thought would naturally have made an association of ‘years’ with the ‘days’ found in a symbolic context, just as he naturally would have identified ‘years’ as the B-word that would follow the A-word ‘days’ in its occurrence as part of a well-known parallel pair."
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"In Old Testament poetry, days and years are employed in synonymous parallelism. Please notice the following examples: Job 10:5; 15:20; 32:7; Deuteronomy 32:7; Psalm 77:5.
A very interesting text is Psalm 90:9-10 where the translation, "years of our lives" literally reads in Hebrew, ‘the days of our years’.
In every place where the Old Testament couples days with years, the word ‘day’ is in the ‘A’ line and the word ‘year’ is in the ‘B’ line. Regarding this, the Old Testament scholar, William Shea comments:
"When we come to the occurrence of the word ‘days’ in the time prophecies, therefore, an ancient Semite whose mind was steeped in this parallelistic type of thought would naturally have made an association of ‘years’ with the ‘days’ found in a symbolic context, just as he naturally would have identified ‘years’ as the B-word that would follow the A-word ‘days’ in its occurrence as part of a well-known parallel pair."
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And he said unto me,
Unto two thousand and three hundred days;
then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Daniel 8:14
