Daniel 9:2
I Daniel understood by books the number of the years which was the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremias, even seventy years for the accomplishment of the desolation of Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 36:21That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, until the land should enjoy its sabbaths in resting and sabbath keeping all the days of its desolation, till the accomplishment of seventy years.
Psalms 74:3The earth is dissolved, and all that dwell in it: I have strengthened its pillars. Pause. 1
Isaiah 6:11And I said, How long, O Lord? And he said, Until cities be deserted + 6:11 Compare use of παρὰ, Jer 40.(33) 10,12; also 1 Cor 12.15,16. by reason of their not being inhabited, and the houses by reason of there being no men, and the land shall be left desolate.
Isaiah 64:10The city of your holiness has become desolate, Sion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.
Jeremiah 25:11And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve amongst the Gentiles 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 →