Daniel 9

We read the prophecy of Daniel so we can understand current events and know what will happen in the future. Ironically, Daniel did the same. He read the prophecy of Jeremiah and from it determined what would happen in the future and what he should be doing to bring about those prophetic words.
In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom— 2 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. 3 So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.

Here is theprophetic passage I think Daniel was reading and considering. It is Jeremiah 29:1-14. “This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets and all the other people N