Na bai ol i rausim yu na yu no ken i stap moa wantaim ol manmeri. Bai yu go i stap wantaim ol wel animal tasol. Yu bai kaikai gras olsem ol bulmakau, inap long 7-pela yia [olsem “7-pela hap taim,” NW ]. Bai yu stap olsem inap yu save olsem God Antap Tru i bosim olgeta manmeri. Long laik bilong em yet, em i save mekim ol man i kamap king.’ ”​—Daniel 4:​31, 32.

17. Wanem samting i kamap long hambakman Nebukatnesar? Na kwiktaim em i stap olsem wanem?

¹⁷ Kwiktaim gutpela tingting bilong Nebukatnesar i lus na em i kamap longlong. Ol i rausim em na em i no ken stap moa wantaim ol manmeri, na em i kaikai gras “olsem ol bulmakau.” Taim em i stap wantaim ol wel animal em i no sindaun isi long gras long wanpela paradais na amamas long kisim gutpela win. Long Irak bilong nau, em ol pipia ston bilong Babilon i stap long en, long taim bilong san em i hat nogut tru, na long taim bilong kol em i kol nogut tru. I no gat man i lukautim em na em i stap ausait long taim bilong san, kol, na ren, olsem na longpela gras bilong em i luk olsem gras bilong tarangau na kapa bilong pinga bilong en i kamap longpela olsem bilong pisin. (Daniel 4:33) Man, dispela i daunim tru dispela hambakman i bosim graun!

18. Long dispela 7-pela hap taim, wanem samting i kamap long wok king bilong Babilon?

¹⁸ Long driman bilong Nebukatnesar, ol i katim dispela bikpela diwai na putim ring long as bilong en bambai em i no ken kru inap 7-pela hap taim. Na olsem tasol “God i bin rausim [Nebukatnesar] na em i no moa i stap king” taim Jehova i mekim em i kamap longlong. (Daniel 5:20) Dispela i mekim na king i no inap tingting olsem wanpela man, em bai tingting olsem wanpela animal. Tasol God i larim Nebukatnesar i kisim bek wok king bilong em taim 7-pela hap taim i pinis. Ating Evil Merodak i stap het bilong gavman long dispela taim, tasol Daniel ‘i stap namba wan kiap bilong provins Babilon na em i stap bos bilong olgeta saveman bilong Babilon.’ Na 3-pela poroman Hibru bilong em ol i gat wok bilong bosim provins Babilon. (Daniel 1:​11-19; 2:​48, 49; 3:30) Dispela 4-pela man i wetim Nebukatnesar i kisim bek wok king na tingting bilong em i kamap gutpela gen na em i kisim save pinis olsem “God Antap Tru i bosim olgeta manmeri. Long laik bilong em yet, em i save makim ol man i kamap king.”

Wok king bilong God hia long graun long rot bilong wanpela kingdom long lain bilong Devit i pinis inap long “7-pela hap taim,” olsem Baibel Hibru bilong pastaim i tok. Dispela 7-pela hap taim i gat hamas yia bilong en? Wanem taim dispela 7-pela hap taim i bin kirap, na wanem samting i kamap bilong makim pinis bilong en?

25, 26. (a) Long ol samting i painim Nebukatnesar, dispela “7-pela hap taim” i makim hamas yia? I gat wanem as na yu bekim olsem? (b) Long bikpela truim, wanem taim dispela “7-pela hap taim” i kirap? Em i kirap olsem wanem?

²⁵ Taim Nebukatnesar i longlong i stap, “gras bilong en i kamap longpela olsem tarangau, na kapa bilong pinga bilong en i kamap longpela olsem pinga bilong pisin.” (Daniel 4:33) Dispela samting i no kamap insait long 7-pela de o 7-pela wik. Sampela Baibel i tanim dispela tok olsem “7-pela hap taim,” na sampela pasin moa bilong tanim i olsem “ol taim ol i makim pinis” o “ol hap taim.” (Daniel 4:​16, 23, 25, 32) Baibel Septuagint i tanim dispela hap tok long narapela narapela kain pasin, na wanpela i tok “7-pela yia.” Saveman Josifas, em i stap long taim bilong ol aposel, em i ting dispela “7-pela hap taim” i olsem “7-pela yia.” (Antiquities of the Jews, Buk 10, Sapta 10, paragraf 6) Na tu, sampela saveman bilong ol Hibru i ting dispela ol hap “taim” i olsem ol “yia.” Ol Baibel bilong tok Hiri Motu na tok Pisin, na Baibel An American Translation, na Today’s English Version, na Baibel James Moffatt i tanim, ol i tanim dispela tok olsem “7-pela yia.”

²⁶ Yumi ken ting driman bilong Nebukatnesar i stori long 7-pela yia. Long ol tok profet, wanpela yia i gat 360 de, o 12-pela mun i gat 30 de long olgeta wan wan mun. (Skelim wantaim KTH 12:​6, 14.) Olsem na “7-pela hap taim,” o 7-pela yia, bilong king i olsem 360 de taims 7, o 2,520 de. Tasol olsem wanem long bikpela truim bilong driman bilong em? Long tok profet dispela “7-pela hap taim” i longpela taim moa, winim 2,520 de. Tok bilong Jisas i helpim yumi long save long dispela samting, em i tok: “Lek bilong ol man bilong ol arapela lain bai i krungutim Jerusalem, inap long taim God i bin makim bilong ol arapela lain man i bosim Jerusalem, em i pinis.” (Luk 21:24) Dispela wok bilong “krungutim” Jerusalem i bin kirap long 607 B.C.E. taim Jerusalem i bagarap, na dispela kingdom, em piksa bilong kingdom bilong God, i no stap moa long Juda. Wanem taim bai dispela wok bilong krungutim Jerusalem i pinis? Long “taim God i makim bilong mekim olgeta samting i kamap nupela gen,” em taim God i bosim graun long rot bilong Kingdom bilong em, em Jerusalem i stap piksa bilong en.​—Aposel 3:21.

27. Wanem as na yu ken tok dispela “7-pela hap taim” i bin kirap long 607 B.C.E. em i no pinis 2,520 de bihain?

²⁷ Sapos yumi kaunim 2,520 de kirap long taim Jerusalem i bagarap long 607 B.C.E., bai yumi kamap long yia 600 B.C.E. tasol, na long Baibel dispela i no wanpela bikpela yia. Long 537 B.C.E. tu, taim ol Juda i lusim kalabus na ol i go bek long ples, wok king bilong Jehova i no kamap bek long graun. As bilong dispela i olsem, ol i no makim Serubabel, em bilong lain bilong Devit, long kamap king, nogat; ol i makim em long kamap gavena tasol bilong Juda, em wanpela provins bilong Persia.

28. (a) Yumi mas bihainim wanem lo taim yumi kaunim 2,520 de bilong dispela tok profet bilong “7-pela hap taim”? (b) Dispela “7-pela hap taim” long tok profet i makim hamas yia? Ol i kirap na pinis long wanem ol yia?

²⁸ Dispela “7-pela hap taim” i wanpela tok profet, olsem na yumi mas bihainim wanpela lo bilong Baibel long kaunim dispela 2,520 de, olsem wanpela wanpela de i makim wanpela wanpela yia. Dispela lo i stap long wanpela tok profet i stori long taim ami bilong Babilon i banisim Jerusalem. (Esekiel 4:​6, 7; skelim wantaim Namba 14:34.) Olsem na dispela “7-pela hap taim” em ol gavman bilong ol arapela lain tasol bai bosim graun na Kingdom bilong God i no pasim ol, em i go inap 2,520 yia. Dispela 7-pela hap taim i kirap taim Juda na Jerusalem i bagarap long mun namba 7 (Tisri 15) bilong 607 B.C.E. (2 King 25:​8, 9, 25, 26) Kirap long dispela taim na i go inap long 1 B.C.E. em i olsem 606 yia. I gat 1,914 yia moa i stap, na ol dispela yia i kirap long 1 B.C.E. na i go inap long yia 1914 C.E. Olsem na dispela “7-pela hap taim,” o 2,520 yia, i pinis long Tisri 15, olsem Oktoba 4/5, 1914 C.E.