Dan 9:2 | TNotes | STEP | 9:2 reading ... Jeremiah: Daniel apparently had a copy of Jeremiah’s prophecies. • Jerusalem must lie desolate for seventy years: Jerusalem was destroyed in 586 BC (see 2 Kgs 25:8 ), and the first return occurred in 538 BC —about 48 years later. The rebuilding of the city began almost at once (see Ezra 3:1-13 ; Isa 44:28 ), and the rebuilt Temple was completed in 515 BC —about seventy-one years after it was destroyed (Ezra 6:15 ). Daniel might have thought of Jerusalem’s “destruction” as having begun with his own exile in 605 BC (see Jer 25:11-12 ), with sixty-seven years between 605 and 538 BC .

b2 Kgs 25:8►

cEzra 3:1-13►

dIsa 44:28►

eEzra 6:15►

fJer 25:11-12►

‏ Daniel 9:2

9:2 ^a reading ... Jeremiah: Daniel apparently had a copy of Jeremiah’s prophecies.

• Jerusalem must lie desolate for seventy years: Jerusalem was destroyed in 586 BC (see 2 Kgs 25:8 ^b), and the first return occurred in 538 BC—about 48 years later. The rebuilding of the city began almost at once (see Ezra 3:1-13 ^c; Isa 44:28 ^d), and the rebuilt Temple was completed in 515 BC—about seventy-one years after it was destroyed (Ezra 6:15 ^e). Daniel might have thought of Jerusalem’s “destruction” as having begun with his own exile in 605 BC (see Jer 25:11-12 ^f), with sixty-seven years between 605 and 538 BC.