And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
The chapter holding this promise belonged to what Jeremiah was commanded to write in a book immediately after the interchange of letters between him and the elders of Israel in Babylonian captivity, preserving all that had been revealed regarding the restoration of Israel. More than sixty years after it was written, in the first year of Darius the Mede, it was prayerfully studied together with the prophecies of Jeremiah 25 and the letters and controversy of Jeremiah 27 to 29. That study made plain the number of the years for accomplishing seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem and made sure the promise of return.
The chapter holding this promise belonged to what Jeremiah was commanded to write in a book immediately after the interchange of letters between him and the elders of Israel in Babylonian captivity, preserving all that had been revealed regarding the restoration of Israel. More than sixty years after it was written, in the first year of Darius the Mede, it was prayerfully studied together with the prophecies of Jeremiah 25 and the letters and controversy of Jeremiah 27 to 29. That study made plain the number of the years for accomplishing seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem and made sure the promise of return.