Dan 9:2 | NET2full | STEP | in the first year of his reign I , Daniel , came to understand from the sacred books that the number of years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem , which had come as the Lord ’s message to the prophet Jeremiah , would be 70 years .

‏ Daniel 9:2

2 in the first year of his reign ^{▼▼tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.} I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books ^{▼▼tn Heb “books” or “scrolls.” The word “sacred” has been added to clarify that it refers to the Scriptures.} that the number of years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem, which had come as the Lord’s ^{▼▼sn The tetragrammaton (the four Hebrew letters that constitute the divine Name, YHWH) appears 8 times in this chapter and nowhere else in the book of Daniel.} message to the prophet Jeremiah, would be 70 years.