2In 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.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-3)We left Daniel, in the close of the foregoing chapter, employed in the king’s business ; but here we have him employed in better business than any king had for him, speaking to God and hearing from him, not for himself only, but for the church, whose mouth he was to God, and for whose use the oracles of God were committed to him , relating to the days of the Messiah. Observe, 1. When it was that D...
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