Pleading and Prophecy (Daniel 9:16-25)

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Daniel's Prayer of Confession and Appeal for Jerusalem

We will be continuing our study in Daniel chapter 9 and we're getting to the top gun section.

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You know, we've the character developments important, but it's the battles you came to see so. You know, not really all of God's Word is marvelous. And we will be looking we'll be starting at verse 16 and see how far we could make it this morning.

Let's pray Father you are righteous and altogether just and everything you do. You have lifted up and you have put down throughout history. Your name has been made great. There have been those who have blasphemed it and you have made that right.

We would be among those who would lift your name up in everything we do whether it's through prayer Through our actions through how people see us Lord. We pray that this church and this body Would be a blessing to you would lift you up would honor you Would make your name great in this world.

That is what Daniel was doing and that is what we would seek to do. Well, thank you for this morning. We ask you for your insight into your word that you would teach us help us to continue our walk Make it more appropriate more exact and more devoted to you and we'll thank you for all you're doing in this church in Jesus name.

Amen. So we're going to I want to keep Contextual precision to a max. We're going to read the whole chapter again from 1 through 27 and it's it's on or will one through. Yeah, 27 and it's on pages 1154 1155 and 1156 so if you need a page number Daniel chapter 9 in the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus Median of Median descent who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans in the first year of his reign.

I Daniel observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah The prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem namely 70 years so I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek him by prayer and supplications with fasting sackcloth and ashes and I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed and said alas Oh Lord the great and awesome God who keeps his covenant and loving-kindness for those who love him and keep his commandments.

We have sinned committed iniquity Acted wickedly and rebelled even turning aside from your commandments and ordinances. Moreover, we have not listened to your servants the prophets who spoke in your name to our kings Our princes our fathers and all the people of the land.

Righteousness belongs to you. Oh Lord, but to us open shame as it is this day to the men of Judah the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel those who are nearby and Those who are far away in all the countries to which you have driven them because of their unfaithful Deeds which they have committed against you.

Open shame belongs to us. Oh Lord to our kings our princes and our fathers because we have sinned Against thee to the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness for we have a rebelled against him.

Nor have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his teachings Which he has set before us through his servants the prophets. Indeed all Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside not obeying your voice.

So the curse has been poured out on us along with the oath Which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God for we have sinned against him. Thus he has confirmed his words which he had spoken against us and against our rulers who ruled us to bring on grip bring on Us great calamity for under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what was done to Jerusalem.

Excuse me as it is written in the law of Moses all this calamity has come on us yet We have not sought the favor of the Lord our God by turning from our iniquity and giving attention to your truth. Therefore the Lord has kept the calamity in store and brought it on us for the Lord Our God is righteous with respect to all his deeds, which he has done.

But we have not obeyed his voice and now O Lord our God Who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and has made a name for yourself as it is. This day we have sinned we have been wicked O Lord in accordance with all your righteous acts.

Let now your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem your holy mountain. For because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all those around us.

So now our God listen to the prayer of your servant and to his supplications and for your sake O Lord Let your face shine on your desolate sanctuary. Oh my God incline your ear in here. Open your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by your name for we are not Presenting our supplications before you on account of any mercies merits of our own but on account of your great compassion.

Oh Lord here. Oh Lord. Forgive. Oh Lord. Listen and take action for your own sake. Oh my God, do not delay because your city and your people are called by your name now while 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 in behalf of the holy mountain of my God.

While I was still speaking in prayer then the man Gabriel whom I had seen in the vision previously came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering and He gave me instruction and talked with me and said Oh Daniel I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding.

At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued and I have come to tell you for you are highly esteemed. So give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision. Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city.

To finish the transgression to make an end of sin to make atonement for iniquity to bring in everlasting righteousness to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place so you are to know and to discern that from The issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks.

And it will be built again with Plaza and moat even in times of distress. Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing and the people of the Prince who is to come Will destroy the city and the sanctuary and its end will come with a flood even to the end there will be war.

Desolations are determined and he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week. But in the middle of the week He will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate.

Even until a complete destruction one that is decreed is poured out on the one who makes desolate. So last week we finished up with verse 50 verse 14 verse 15 excuse me, and so we watched and read as through 12 verses Daniel poured out his heart in confession and Description of God's mercy God's character Description of the sins and I'll probably cover a couple of things multiple times as we go through this.

Some of it is because I forgot I covered it before. But some of it is to make is to firmly make a point about something and you have to guess which is which no I'm just kidding so Daniel has again and again confessed now.

It's it's my opinion and I believe it's substantiated by some of the things he says later that this is a Summary of his prayer. I believe his prayer lasted at least several hours. If not more he poured his heart out for a long period of time and God interestingly enough in verse 23 We will see begin sent the answer at the beginning of the prayer and by the time he was finished in the evening Gabriel shows up so in verse 14 Daniel reminds Both himself and his readers that God keeps calamity in store for the times when his people will not obey him will perniciously continue to disobey and he brings that calamity Righteously to correct them to punish them to turn them verse 15.

And now he says He reminds of another incredible victory that Jehovah Yahweh had had Perpetrated on the king of Israel. He said you brought your people out of the land of excuse me The king of Egypt you brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and made a name for yourself.

That's one of Daniel's concerns is God's name. That's a major concern of Daniel is God's name God's glory God's Reputation if it will if you will and then he reminds everyone we have sinned we have been wicked and so we looked at that.

For 12 verses he's been doing nothing but confessing. Praising and and considering what God has done and I think that that was probably several hours that this is a summary of but that's just my own speculation.

Just let's make sure that you're not saying I'm not saying that's what scripture says. That's what I think. Verse 16 is where he the page turns if you will.

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I wished I'd been smart enough to put that on a different page so I could actually you know. It would be visual but it's in the middle of the page. So in verse 16 Daniel turns to an actual request an actual supplication after I believe several hours of prayer.

So here's verse 16. He says O Lord in accordance with all your righteous acts Let now your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem your holy mountain for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all those around us now.

Remember what's in Daniel's mind. He's been reading Jeremiah more than likely when you read. I know what I read and I'm reading a section and it reminds me of something that I read in a former book. I go.

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Jim's really good excellent about that when it says something in the New Testament that quotes the Old Testament. Well, guess what for the next seven months? We're gonna be studying the Old Testament good thing.

It's a good thing. It provides the context that only scripture can give so Daniel's thinking he's reading through Jeremiah and Jeremiah stipulates it's 70 years and Jeremiah based his prophecy on God's character on God's statement that if you do not follow the Sabbath Rest period so every seven years you let your land rest.

I will take you off the land I will punish you and I will restore the land. I will let it have its rest. So all of that's in Daniel's mind. There's rests. There's periods of sevens periods of years periods of time.

There's the promise of God of a 70-year restoration and so Daniel's thinking in his mind I'm I think I'm within a few years of that. It depends on when the captivity Officially started because God specific.

So he prays in accordance with your righteous acts only here. After all of this acknowledgement and recognition of God's greatness does Daniel finally ask for something? So even though God's anger was righteous Daniel does not Disagree with that he is asking that Yahweh would turn his wrath away from the city of Jerusalem.

Now he says not just for their own sake He will say but because for the sake of the name of God. He knows that God has made this promise and in order for God to maintain his righteous name. Daniel doesn't have to worry about that, but he repeats it do it now do it soon.

So that everyone will see that you you follow your own prophecies. So Daniel spent much time in prayer and blessing and confessing iniquity. And I believe that this is a good thing to remember as we pray this come must come before supplication before request.

We need to know about ourselves. Sometimes it's just reciting and thinking through that will Help you focus on what it was that caused the problem in the first place. I did see something. It was kind of cute this morning, you know, the what would Jesus do thing?

Well, what we really need to do is it's a much longer acronym and is you ought to remember that Jesus would have never gotten Himself in this place in the first place in this condition in the first place, but it's like 33 letters.

So nobody's that's not a bumper sticker. That's not bumper sticker worthy. So Daniel is reciting these things and thinking through what caused this. Everything that happens in God's economy has a cause a cause and effect.

Israelites didn't get sent away to Babylonia just because an angry God had nothing to do that day. It was based on God's promises and God's Word Throughout history as recorded in Moses and recorded in the Pentateuch and as recorded in earlier prophets.

So now he asks for mercy. Would you please turn away your wrath? And he knows what that means. That means they get to go back home if he turns away his wrath. It's not just a simple thing and that how many of you have moved across country?

Did you have a vehicle?

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You moved on foot. Yeah, you probably had a vehicle moving van. You probably had help yet highways not the same. 586 BC. 5 535 534 BC. So this is not a simple thing that Daniel is asking for but it's an important thing.

God's Face Shining on the Desolate Sanctuary

Verse 17. So now our God listen to the prayer of your servant and to his supplications and for your sake. Oh Lord, let your face shine on your desolate sanctuary. Why would he want God's face to shine on the sanctuary because if the sanctuary comes back to its former glory then it is a picture and a Pointing to the glory of Yahweh.

That's why Daniel would want that Daniel here continues to request that God hear his prayer for God's sake and for the sake of the Desolation of the sanctuary. He's not asking for something for himself.

He's asking for something for God and for God's people. So fashion your prayer is what I took from this some of it that you so that because you understand how important it is to Bring glory to God even your supplication and your request would do that that it wouldn't just bring you success bring you health wealth Etc.

It would it would bring God glory. Daniel now begins a series of requests. He has set the stage showing God that he understands the importance of confessing first. Listening second and then requesting all of this is done for the sake of the Lord himself in the previous verse He asked God to turn away his wrath.

That was verse 16. Here he asked God to do something positive. That is to let his face shine on a sanctuary that has been desolated for At least 70 years even here Daniel's prayer is for others and not for himself.

Verse 17 is a clear picture of his concern for God and for the people. So any comments or questions on those two verses? Verse 18. Oh my god continuing continuing his requests his supplication incline your ear in here.

That's a beautiful picture. Especially when I when you get my age and you can't hear stuff. I find myself inclining my ear all the time. What was that? Pardon me? But this is a picture of a benevolent father Leaning over to listen to his child's supplication in love and in concern God Daniel knows this open your eyes he says and see our Desolations and the city which is called by your name for we are not presenting our supplications before you on account of any merits of our.

Own.

But on account of your great compassion It's God's compassion that will Finally be used be moved by which he will be moved to restore Israel. So Daniel decries his own and his people's merit. They have none.

I Think it's it's important that when we present the gospel that we point out that nobody that the person were presenting the gospel to however delicately or Unabashedly, you have to present it that they have no merit of their own that they've broken the law.

This is Daniel's understanding. He and the people of Israel have no merit of their own for which to make this request. But he prays that God would answer his prayer as a demonstration of his great compassion again lifting up God's character.

So don't be afraid to cry out to God repeatedly for mercy. Remember the story Jesus told of the importunate widow in Luke chapter Luke chapter 18 and the the judge says I don't fear man or God, but she's gonna keep coming.

She's gonna wear me down now. I'm paraphrasing you might have guessed that That's not how God is that's not saying that God is is like that judge but keep coming back. Daniel keeps coming back. So not that God's become weird that God becomes weary of hearing you but that he has told us to seek him earnestly in this way.

Here and in the New Testament there's a reminder here again, Daniel asked not based on any claim Israel might have and No claim that he had. He asked based on God's mercy as all requests must be made for there for no man truly deserves God's mercy.

And I think as a believer becomes older and more mature in Christ the more you begin to realize that. Well, why did he even choose me? I haven't got anything for him. Nothing. This is such a bad deal God.

What are you getting out of this, you know? So and it sometimes it takes years of maturity before you realize that. This is a part of the attitude of prayer. That's necessary for one to be in a proper relationship with God with God as they pray that God will deal his compassion Based on his character.

So seek to know the character of God as you're praying. Now he cries out This one. I I don't know if he did this out loud. Sometimes I have found myself when I was in prayer deep prayer for other people.

I began without thinking about it talking out loud speaking out loud talking is out loud thinking out loud, I guess. Oh Lord here. Oh Lord, forgive. Oh Lord. Listen and take action for your own sake. Oh my god, do not delay because your city and your people are called by your name.

Why don't you delay because the city that's called by your name is not reflecting your glory right now. So Daniel is about to close this prayer and he does it with an anguish pleading for the Lord to hear.

Forgive and take action. So it's an excellent way to close a prayer if indeed the prayers closed here again. I think this is a summary. But nevertheless, this looks like the beginning of the end of this prayer and we're gonna have an angel in it for him.

One commentator noted the fact that in verses 15 through 19 Daniel ceases using the covenant name of God Yahweh and Uses only Adonai and Elohim. The implication is that Daniel is recognizing God's absolute sovereignty over himself and over Israel.

So he closes this prayer passionately and yet humbly he has four specific requests. He wants the Lord to hear hear his prayer and I would suggest to it's not in the text. But there had to be more than just Daniel praying for this.

I would be certain that Daniel had a men's group or something a group of people Whom he met with in the synagogue outside of the synagogue. There were more than just one person here praying today at this on this particular day for God to bring the people back into Jerusalem to Israel and so.

Now I lost my place. Oh. He closes his prayer. Humbly yet passionately he has four specific requests. So he says here Forgive that he wants the Lord to take action and he wants the Lord to avoid delaying.

So that's those are saying the same things almost. So Daniel is giving us a good example of a method of praying for if there's methodology involved of praying to God. Seek seek seek and seek again and yet even here where Daniel pours out the true desire of his heart.

It is still for the glory of God. Jerusalem and all the Israelites are known to be the people of Yahweh and by God taking action here He will vindicate himself as the great God that he is. So this is Daniel's desire and of course, it should be ours as well.

He still wants this prayer to be answered so that God will be glorified especially among the heathen. Actually, I maybe I should say I just realized that maybe more especially among the Israelites who have been a wayward people for so long.

Does this some of this sound like what's going on in our world today? I? Mean are we rebellious? Are we walking away from God? Do we ignore his prophets? I mean as a nation. It's it's the same material happening over and over again in history and To me, it's remarkable that God shows so much.

I mean, he's got a big thumb. It would probably be really easy for him to just go start again. But he doesn't do that. I don't mean to joke about this. Even this prayer though has been attacked by the critics who postulate that Daniel copied it from a common source that was also used by Ezra in the year 166 BC because the critics always postulate that this is a Spurious not prophetic book.

I don't know some of the cute some of the critics. Most of the curex critics are unbelievers. But there are some believers quote unquote who criticize it this way and I I would ask them if if it is then it's it's being presented to us as a Biblical prophetic book of the Bible.

What other parts should we not trust? This is was written 500 years before Christ give or take and it is a prophetic book. Exactly as it's portraying itself. So they believe that that they had a common source and it was also used by Ezra Nehemiah and Baruch Baruch Baruch.

The arguments are convoluted. I read through some of them and at that as I got through the end of the argument I was looking kind of like this. What did he just say? So I would read it again and it was worse.

And.

It's just I think it's it sounds like some of the arguments I made to my parents when I was trying to defend something that I had done that was just really dumb and stupid and and and idiotic and all those things I'm not gonna repeat repeat them because I I confess to you I couldn't make enough sense of some of the arguments to repeat them to you in a fashion where I could communicate to you what they basically just said well.

It was copied because it was and and the copiers were copying the copies because copies can be copied. You want to make that face with me? So it's really very simple. The arguments are convoluted and specious, but they're answered by simply recognizing that Daniel wrote first Ezra Nehemiah and Baruch.

Baruch. Anybody here? Baruch. Okay, Baruch. You don't want to help huh? I see that now. They had all all all had Daniel before them when they wrote their respective books, but more importantly there were liturgical common prayers that were used in in the Pentateuch times and in the fathers times and in the prophetic times it wasn't uncommon for kind of a not a I don't want to call it a.

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Default boilerplate prayer. But there were some things that would be followed specifically and carefully as you were praying so you wouldn't forget To note some things in your prayer to bring some things to your own attention to bring some things to God's attentions.

And there's not a that's not a bad thing. Liturgical step-by-steps prayers were not uncommon. Further one of the issues is people who confuse the idea that Daniel 70 weeks is the same as Jeremiah 70 years.

But Daniel actually distinguishes between these two time periods. So finishing up the prayer what a great example this prayer is to us. It's a man. This is from a man who prayed three times day a day with his face towards Jerusalem and he had a system of prayer that included confession praise acknowledgment of responsibility a desire for relief based upon the character of God and the merits of God alone and The ability to demonstrate the world to the world the glory of God.

So this is a reasonably good pattern and I'm beginning to To kind of work my prayer life over a bit as I think through this I don't want to say we have to have some sort of a checklist on our refrigerator.

But it's not a bad idea as you're looking through and you see how a godly man prays to emulate that kind of praying confession praise reiteration of confession acknowledge and responsibility desiring a Restored relationship with the Trinity and an opportunity to show to the world the incredible glory of God.

I think all of us should be about that showing to the glory showing to the world the glory the marvelous Wonder of God. So any comments about that prayer? We're finally finished with the prayer. You've been praying for that, haven't you?

So now Daniel says verse 20. Now while 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 on behalf of the Holy Mountain of my God.

So he's opening up an explanation of what's coming next. Now. Daniel is interrupted in his prayer. I.

Think I.

Don't know if he was done. Or if he was interrupted or if there's a combination of those that he was interrupted, but Gabriel knew he was done. I suppose that's one of the questions. I'm gonna have on my refrigerator checklist to ask when I get there.

And here we see that he does include himself in the confession of sin. Even though scripture does not mention any failings in the life of Daniel he knows what they were and During this time of prayer.

He has made a confession of them. All of the verbs used in this chapter are in this verse. Regarding Daniel's activities and his during his prayer speaking praying confessing and presenting a supplication.

All those verbs are used regularly throughout the prayer and they are in this verse. Each of the words denotes an aspect of Daniel's time in prayer. The word translated as speaking comes from a root word, which means to arrange and So the writers in here this will especially appeal to you.

He arranged things in a logical careful manner. Do you want to pray and not forget stuff? I? I can't tell you how many times I've gotten up and later on in the day. I went. I Forgot all about that. Well, it's okay to just go right to prayer then.

But it would have been nice if I had remembered it before. I believe Daniel had a system where he had Organized thoughts on what he was going to pray for. That's just an idea. I have. So Daniel was thinking through what he had to say and attempting to arrange his prayer in logical progression.

The word translated as praying comes from the idea of to judge to intercede. So in his prayer he had to think about what was good and what was bad. What what? Israel had done what God had done. He was judging all the way through that prayer in a proper manner or or judging in the New Testament vermin version of Carino of Connecting things and disconnecting things looking at what was right.

What was wrong what needed to be changed. The word translated as confessing. He speaks the idea of holding one's hands out and even wringing them. Right during the confession wringing his hands. He so guilty.

It's it's something that we should always recognize that we are guilty before God. Grateful that he paid for it that his son paid for it bemoaning personal failures. And finally the word translated as presenting my supplication speak of falling down and Entreating the favor of someone in this case Yahweh.

So those four verbs are used throughout the prayer and they are in this summary. He also notes that his prayer was truly on behalf of God on behalf of the holy mountain of my God. He says at the end of this verse on behalf of God specifically the holy mountain of God, which is in Jerusalem the temple.

In his prayer earlier in chapter 16 verse 16. Don't read rule number one. Don't read exactly what you've written until you've read it once before. That he prayed in verse 16 Daniel equates the holy mountain of God with the city of Jerusalem.

He's specifically thinking about the temple now. I shouldn't have interrupted that thought. So he knows that his prayer was on behalf of God. Specifically the holy mountain of God in his prayer earlier in verse 16.

He equates the holy mountain of God with the city of Jerusalem. He's specifically talking about the temple Mount that will become important later on in the 70 week section. 70 yeah 70 week section. So while Daniel was speaking here, by the way, and we will see this a little bit later Gabriel was on his way.

Pray he already knows what we need as everyone in here is well taught. You know, it's for us. It's for us to think it through and to be on our physical or spirit or Imaginary knees before God seeking his face.

So we will see that from verse 23 God launched the answer to Daniel's prayer at the very beginning of his prayer. This is funny too because this is an aside. I was just thought stuff in heaven was instantaneous, you know like Star Trek.

You know, they just beamed Gabriel down. Well, apparently it's not apparently it's not and this is an interesting verse. It God sent Gabriel and it took a little bit of time. I'm thinking. Now this is just my thinking this is not what scripture says several hours.

Probably because I believe that's about how long Daniel was praying. I don't know when he started but he prays clear till dusk so Boy, I jumped around a bunch there. So, you know now that there's no beaming down in heaven.

So So while Daniel speaking Gabriel's on his way and he says in verse 21 while I was while I was still speaking in prayer. Then the man Gabriel whom I had seen in the vision previously. That's an interesting statement came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering.

So the interruption by Gabriel is not necessarily unwelcome. Daniel identifies him as the man Gabriel most likely to link this appearance with the appearance in chapter 8 verse 16 in the vision. Previously Daniel is identifying Gabriel as a man, but just noting that he appeared in human form.

He's not saying he was a man just noting that he appeared in human form. So the first two visions of Daniel occurred about two years apart. But 13 years ago, the second vision was 13 years ago. So this is instructive for us then the man Gabriel who I am it's whom I had seen in the vision previously.

This is the 13 year ago vision. This so Daniel is not identifying Gabriel. I said as a man, but noting that he appeared in human form. So the second vision Was 13 years ago and this gives us a connection to that second vision to be of a period of 13 years.

So it's for reader comprehension so the construction Translated came to me in my extreme weariness is a very difficult section to translate. I'm not that I'm a Hebrew. I'm not but I looked at the you know, they have the Hebrew words in the exact word of each and and I could see the difficulty that the translators had.

The King James translators render it as the angel flying swiftly with the words for swiftly coming from a root which means to be weary. So if you do a lot of things swiftly You get weary. So there's a connection there in the in the Hebrew thesaurus if you will.

The roots of both words in this phrase refer to the idea of weariness both words. So here is a likelier translation not that this isn't a good one. But Gabriel was dispatched at the beginning of Daniel's prayer and came to him while Daniel had been praying a long time and had grown weary.

It sounds much better in the Bible, but that gives you the general sense of it. Daniel had been praying a long time the sleep the angel didn't get weary. Daniel was weary and The angel was dispatched.

Daniel continued to pray when the angel got there. Daniel had wearied himself in prayer to me. That's a that's a good prescription for good some good prayer if you can get weary in it. The idea of extreme weariness gives credence to the idea that Daniel had been praying a long time and.

Most likely the 16 verses of this chapter are a summary. That is easily understood when one realizes Daniel was spending a great deal of time confessing in the text. We see that he was confessing various sins and wickedness.

Most likely he fleshed those out in the original prayer. He would have known the history of the Israelites some of it. He was involved in not that he did the sins, but he was involved in the captivity.

We see that he was confessing various sins and wickedness. He probably named all of these things or at least most of them. He also most likely named a number of how of the wonderful characteristics of God.

A study of the ten. There's more than ten but ten attributes. I've Had a favorite study of mine was a ten attributes of God. It's just fun and refreshing to go over that from time to time. So the four words in verse 20 indicate that much could have been said about each subject.

Much could have been said that we talked about speak pray supplicate, etc. The words translated as came to me is a word meaning to lay the hand upon. So if you are in deep prayer and your eyes are closed and I sneak into the room and say hey Rick.

How you doing? I?

Think the angel Gabriel didn't want to startle Daniel and he walked in and he put his hand on his shoulder. That's just my impression that the the word for the translation here gives room for that. It means to lay the hand upon to touch.

Most likely refers to the fact that Daniel was deep in prayer with his eyes closed and the angel didn't want to startle him. So he touched Daniel softly to make him aware of his presence. We don't know when Daniel started praying but it lasted until the evening offering.

We don't know the exact time of the evening offering. But the translation is from a word that means dusk so it was at the very end of the Jewish Jewish workday. Ezra and Psalms make this clear. They say Ezra 9 5, but at the evening offering I arose for my humiliation.