Immediately after the vision of Daniel 8, what did Daniel learn from his study of the prophecy of Jeremiah?
Question 1
Answer
1. In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
2. In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:1-2
NOTE - The first deportation to Babylon, when Daniel and his companions were carried captive, was in B.C. 606, and the seventy years of Jeremiah's prophecy would therefore expire In B.C. 536.
The first year of Darius was B.C. 538, and the restoration period was therefore only two years distant from that time.