...redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand." Dan. ix. 2, 15: "In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years,...accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem." "And now, 0 Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast...

...the Lord's sake. Here we find one prophet teaching us what use to make of the writings of another. Daniel "understood by books the number of the years,...accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem." See Jer. 25. 11, 12. 29. 10. And therefore at the expiration of the period he betook himself to very...

...of the Chaldeans; in the__first year of his reign I Daniel understood" — how? by inspiration? no; "by books the number of the years, whereof the word...accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 1, 2. The primitive Christians, also, profane history informs us, were indebted to unfulfilled...

...expiration of the 70 years captivity as predicted by Jeremiah, and recorded by Ezekiel, Daniel, who " understood by books the number of the years whereof...to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish 70 years in the desolations of Jerusalem, set his face unto the Lord his God." (Dan. ix., 12.) Equally...

...other data. This he did ; for in the first year of Darius, as he informs in the 9th chapter, he learned by books the number of the years whereof the word...to Jeremiah, the prophet, that he would accomplish 70 years in the desolations of Jerusalem. That 70 years, beginning in the first year of Nebuchadnezzar,...

...redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand." Dan. ix. 2, 15: "In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years,...the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, thnt he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem." " And now, O Lord our God,...

...writings of the Prophet Jeremiah that was before him*; " I, Daniel, understood by books the number of years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the Prophet." Which also may serve to confirm what was said before, that the sons of the prophets in their colleges...

...learn from books (prophecy) that the long captivity of the Jews, in Babylon, was about terminating ? " I Daniel, understood, by books, the number of the...to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish 70 years in the desolations of Jerusalem." He understood the prophecy, and set himself to prayer and...

...necessary in regard to it. Besides Daniel is not troubled about understanding that vision, but as he had " understood by books the number of the years whereof...word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that lie would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem," so this period being about fulfilled,...

...visions, matters or words, the result would be a BOOK, just as Jeremiah had done before him. He writes, "I, Daniel, understood by books the number of the...accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem." ix. 2. Here let it be observed that Daniel could understand the book of prophecy by Jeremiah ; it was...