Daniel 9:2
in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
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2 Chronicles 36:21to fulfil the LORD’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.
Psalms 74:3Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
Psalms 119:24Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counsellors.
Isaiah 6:11Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,
Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 25:11This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will 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 →