1 And in the first year of Cyrus*+ the king of Persia, that Jehovah’s word from the mouth of Jeremiah+ might be accomplished, Jehovah roused+ the spirit of Cyrus the king of Persia so that he caused a cry+ to pass through all his realm, and also in writing,+ saying:

2 in the first year of his reigning I myself, Daniel, discerned by the books the number of the years concerning which the word of Jehovah* had occurred to Jeremiah the prophet,+ for fulfilling the devastations of Jerusalem,+ [namely,] seventy years.+

17 Then that was fulfilled which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying: