Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
Jeremiah 30 and 31 together form the book Jeremiah was commanded to write containing all that had been revealed concerning the restoration of Israel. It was written immediately after the exchange of letters between Jeremiah and the elders in Babylon. It contains the sure promise of return after seventy years amid the desolations of Jerusalem, stated so plainly that Daniel, studying it together with Jeremiah 25 more than sixty years later in the first year of Darius the Mede, understood the number of the years. Daniel clung to this certain promise of return even while he was perplexed over how the seventy years of captivity related to the twenty-three hundred years to the cleansing of the sanctuary.
Jeremiah 30 and 31 together form the book Jeremiah was commanded to write containing all that had been revealed concerning the restoration of Israel. It was written immediately after the exchange of letters between Jeremiah and the elders in Babylon. It contains the sure promise of return after seventy years amid the desolations of Jerusalem, stated so plainly that Daniel, studying it together with Jeremiah 25 more than sixty years later in the first year of Darius the Mede, understood the number of the years. Daniel clung to this certain promise of return even while he was perplexed over how the seventy years of captivity related to the twenty-three hundred years to the cleansing of the sanctuary.