Dan 9:2, 24 | ESV | STEP | in the first year of his reign , I , Daniel , perceived in the books the number of years that , according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet , must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem , namely, seventy years .

Daniel 9:2

2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to ^athe word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

Daniel 9:24

The Seventy Weeks

24 ^b“Seventy weeks ^{▼▼Or sevens; also twice in verse 25 and once in verse 26} are decreed about your people and ^dyour holy city, to finish ^ethe transgression, to put an end to sin, ^fand to atone for iniquity, ^gto bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and ^hto anoint a most holy place. ^{▼▼Or thing, or one}