Jeremiah 25:12
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 27:7
27:7 All nations must serve him and his son and grandson
until the time comes for his own nation to fall.
Then many nations and great kings will in turn subjugate Babylon.
Jeremiah 27:22
27:22 He has said, ‘They will be carried off to Babylon. They will remain there until it is time for me to show consideration for them again.
Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.’ I, the
Lord, affirm this!”
Jeremiah 27:2
27:2 The
Lord told me,
“Make a yoke
out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and put it on your neck.
Jeremiah 36:21-23
36:21 The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. He went and got it from the room of Elishama, the royal secretary. Then he himself
read it to the king and all the officials who were standing around him.
36:22 Since it was the ninth month of the year, the king was sitting in his winter quarters.
A fire was burning in the firepot in front of him.
36:23 As soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns
of the scroll, the king
would cut them off with a penknife
and throw them on the fire in the firepot. He kept doing so until the whole scroll was burned up in the fire.
Ezra 1:1-2
The Decree of Cyrus
1:1 In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order to fulfill the Lord’s message spoken through Jeremiah, the Lord stirred the mind of King Cyrus of Persia. He disseminated a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom, announcing in a written edict the following:
1:2 “Thus says King Cyrus of Persia:
“‘The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has instructed me to build a temple for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
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.
Zechariah 7:5
7:5 “Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh
months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me – for me, indeed?