Daniel 9:2
in the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by the books that the number of the years, whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishment of the desolations of Jerusalem, was seventy years.
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2 Chronicles 36:21to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.
Psalms 74:3Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
Psalms 119:24Thy testimonies also are my delight [and] my counsellors.
Isaiah 6:11And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land become an utter desolation,
Isaiah 64:10Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 25:11And this whole land shall become a waste, an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Matthew Henry on Daniel 9:2-4
Daniel's Confession and Prayer. ( b. c. 538.) 1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; 2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. 3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: We left… Read the whole commentary →