Daniel 9:1-2

In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom— in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the LORD given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.

From Background Notes [BN] for February 11^th/12^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Reading Scripture prompted Daniel to pray. This is an important observation from the text.

His prayer to God did not arise only from a frustration with the continuing exile in Babylon, as if Daniel had simply grown impatient with God and was seeking relief. A student of the Hebrew Bible, he reflected on the book of Jeremiah, a document written twice by the faithful scribe named Baruch (see Jeremiah 32; 36; 43; 45). When the king of Judah shredded the first copy of Jeremiah, Baruch wrote it down once more, “and added many things” (Jeremiah 36:32) — a helpful insight to the fluid process by which the biblical books came into their present form. Evidently the first writing of the book was not the final one! [BN, 5]

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