Daniel 9:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² in the first year of his reign I, Dani’ĕ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books the number of years which, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass by before the desolations [which had been] pronounced on Jerusalem should end; and it was seventy years. [Jer. 25:11, 12; 29:10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.

Common English Bible

² I, Daniel, pondered the scrolls, specifically the number of years that it would take to complete Jerusalem’s desolation according to the LORD’s word to the prophet Jeremiah. It was seventy years.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² in year one of his reign, I, Daniel, understood in the books the number of the years, concerning the word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah, the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would be completed in seventy years.

Daniel 9:2 Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:21

in order to fill the word of יהוה  by the mouth of Yirmeyahu, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay waste she kept Sabbath, until seventy years were completed.

Ezra 1:1

And in the first year of Koresh sovereign of Persia, that the word of יהוה  by the mouth of Yirmeyah might be accomplished, יהוה  stirred up the spirit of Koresh sovereign of Persia, to proclaim throughout all his reign, and also in writing, saying,

Psalm 119:24

Your witnesses also are my delight, My counsellors.

Isaiah 64:10

Your set-apart cities has become a wilderness, Tsiyon has become a wilderness, Yerushalayim a waste.

Jeremiah 1:1

The words of Yirmeyahu the son of Ḥ

Jeremiah 25:18

namely Yerushalayim and the cities of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 26:18

“Miḵ

Jeremiah 26:6

then I shall make this house like Shiloh, and make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”

Jeremiah 27:7

‘And all nations shall serve him and his son and his son’s son, until the time of his land comes. And then many nations and great sovereigns shall make him serve them.

Jeremiah 29:10

“For thus said יהוה, ‘When seventy years are completed, at Baḇ

Jeremiah 7:34

“And in the cities of Yehuḏ

Lamentations 1:1

How alone she sits, The city once great with people! Like a widow she has become, One great among the nations! A princess among provinces has become a slave!

Ezekiel 29:11

“No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited for forty years.

Daniel 9:3

So I set my face toward יהוה  the Elohim to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Tsiyon is ploughed like a field, and Yerushalayim becomes heaps, and the mountain of the House like a wooded height.

Zechariah 1:12

And the messenger of יהוה  answered and said, “O יהוה  of hosts, how long would You have no compassion on Yerushalayim and on the cities of Yehuḏ

Zechariah 7:5

“Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months all these seventy years, did you truly fast for Me – for Me?

Matthew 24:15

“So when you see the ‘abomination that lays waste,’ spoken of by Dani’ĕ

Mark 13:14

“And when you see the ‘abomination that lays waste,’ spoken of by Dani’ĕ

Acts 8:34

And the eunuch, answering Philip, said, “I ask you, about whom does the prophet say this, about himself or about some other?”

1 Timothy 4:13

Until I come, give attention to reading of Scripture, to encouragement, to teaching.

Revelation 1:3

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and guard what is written in it, for the time is near.