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Seventy Years
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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The period assigned by Jeremiah for the duration of the Jewish exile in Babylon (Jeremiah 25:11 , Jeremiah 25:12; Jeremiah 29:10; compare 2 Chronicles 36:21 f; Ezra 1:1; Daniel 9:2 ). If the period be reckoned from the date of the first deportation in the 4th year of Jehoiakim (2 Kings 24:1; 2 Chronicles 36:6 ff; Daniel 1:1 by another reckoning calls it the 3rd year), i.e. 606 BC, till the decree of Cyrus, 536 BC, the prediction was fulfilled to a year. See CAPTIVITY .
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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Seventy Years'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/s/seventy-years.html. 1915.
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Seventy Years'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/s/seventy-years.html. 1915.
