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¶ And it shall come to passe when seuentie yeeres are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquitie, and the land of the Caldeans, and will make it perpetuall desolations.

1611 marginal noteHeb. visite vpon.

1611 marginal note2.Chron. 36.22. eszr. 1.1. Chap. 29.10. dan. 9.2.

¶ For thus saith the LORD, That after seuentie yeeres be accomplished at Babylon, I will visite you, and performe my good word towards you, in causing you to returne to this place.

1611 marginal note2.Chron. 36.22, ezra 1.1. Chap. 25.12. and 27.22. dan. 9.2.

And there stood before them seuentie men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the middest of them stood Iaazaniah the sonne of Shaphan, with euery man his censer in his hand, and a thicke cloud of incense went vp.

Now the building that was before the seperate place, at the end toward the West, was seuenty cubites broad, and the wall of the building was fiue cubites thicke round about, and the length thereof ninety cubites.

In the first yeere of his reigne, I Daniel vnderstood by bookes the number of the yeeres, whereof the word of the LORD came to Ieremiah the Prophet, that he would accomplish seuentie yeeres in the desolations of Ierusalem.

1611 marginal noteIere.25.12. and 29.10.

Seuentie weekes are determined vpon thy people, and vpon thy holy citie, to finish the transgression, and to make an ende of sinnes, and to make reconciliation for iniquitie, and to bring in euerlasting righteousnes, and to seale vp the vision and prophecie, and to anoynt the most Holy.

1611 marginal noteOr, to restraine.

1611 marginal noteOr, to seale vp.

1611 marginal noteHeb. prophet.

Speake vnto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fift and seuenth moneth, euen those seuenty yeeres; did ye at all fast vnto me, euen to me?

1611 marginal noteIsa.58.5.

Iesus saith vnto him, I say not vnto thee, Untill seuen times: but, Untill seuentie times seuen.

¶ After these things, the Lord appointed other seuenty also, and sent them two and two before his face, into euery citie and place, whither hee himselfe would come.

1611 marginal noteMat. 10.1.

¶ And the seuenty returned againe with ioy, saying, Lord, euen the deuils are subiect vnto vs through thy name.