Daniel 9:2
in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood from the books the number of the years about which the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the completion of the desolation of Jerusalem, seventy years.
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3And I turned to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:21to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill 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 counselors.DALET
Isaiah 6:11Then I said, "Lord, how long?"He answered,"Until cities are waste without inhabitant,and houses without man,and the land becomes utterly waste,
Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 25:11This whole land shall be a desolation, and 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 →