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John Gills Exposition of the bible

Daniel 9:2
In the first year of his reign

Daniel might possibly have heard this prophecy of Jeremiah from his own mouth, before he went to Babylon; since the first intimation of it was in the first year of Jehoiakim, ( Jeremiah 27:1 Jeremiah 27:7 ) , and after this the prophecy might be sent to Babylon for the use of the captive Jews there; and indeed a copy of all his prophecies was no doubt brought thither at the last captivity of the people; so that it is easy to account for it how Daniel came by it; and it is plain it was now before him; for he uses the very word, (twbrx) , "desolations", which Jeremiah does, ( Jeremiah 25:9 Jeremiah 25:11 ) , the prophecy of the seventy years' captivity, and of deliverance from it at the expiration of that term, stands in ( Jeremiah 25:12 ) ( 29:10 ) , which Daniel carefully read over, thoroughly considered, and as he full well knew what was the epoch of them, or when they begun, he found that they were just ready to expire; and this set him to the work of prayer, as in the following verses. From hence it is manifest that the law was not burnt, nor the Scriptures lost, in the Babylonish captivity; so that none knew what were or would be done by the Lord, as is falsely asserted in the Apocrypha:

``For thy law is burnt, therefore no man knoweth the things that are done of thee, or the work that shall begin. &c.'' (2 Esdras 14:21)

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(Jeremías 25:11) Y toda esta tierra tiene que llegar a ser un lugar devastado, un objeto de pasmo, y estas naciones tendrán que servir al rey de Babilonia setenta años”’.