Dan 9:2 | ESV | STEP | in the first year of his reign , I , Daniel , perceived in the books the number of years that , according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet , must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem , namely, seventy years .

‏ Daniel 9:2

2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to ^athe word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.