Jeremiah 25:11-12
25:11 This whole area
will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.’
25:12 “‘But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon an everlasting ruin. I, the Lord, affirm it!
Jeremiah 52:31-34
Jehoiachin in Exile
52:31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.
52:32 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
52:33 Jehoiachin took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.
52:34 He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.
Daniel 9:2
9:2 in the first year of his reign
I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books
that, according to the word of the
LORD disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem
were seventy in number.