Dan 9:2 | HCSB | STEP | In the first year of his reign , I , Daniel , understood from the books according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be 70 .

a 2Ch 36:21; Ezr 1:1; Jr 25:11-12; 29:10; Zch 7:5

‏ Daniel 9:2

2 In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be 70. ^a