Daniel 9:21
While I was praying, Gabriel, the angel/one whom I had seen in the vision previously, came flying rapidly to me, at the time in the evening when the priests offered sacrifices.
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1 Kings 18:29They continued calling out to Baal all afternoon. But there was no reply, no answer, no god who paid attention.
Ezra 9:4So many of the Israelis trembled/were afraid when they heard that some of those who had returned from Babylonia had sinned by disobeying the God of us Israelis like that. They came and sat with me until it was time to offer the evening sacrifices of grain.
Psalms 104:4You caused the winds to be like your messengers [MET], and flames of fire to be like your servants.
Isaiah 6:6Then one of the winged creatures took a hot coal from the altar, using a pair of tongs. He flew to me
Ezekiel 1:14The creatures moved back and forth extremely rapidly, like [SIM] flashes of lightning.
Daniel 8:18While he was speaking, I fainted. I lay there, unconscious, with my face still on the ground. But Gabriel put his hand on me and lifted me up in order that I could stand again.
Matthew Henry on Daniel 9:21-27
Daniel's Prayer Answered; The Answer to Daniel's Prayer; The Coming of the Messiah; Destruction of Jerusalem Foretold. ( b. c. 538.) 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… Read the whole commentary →