KJV ORIGINAL
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.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, was reading through some books and finally understood what God had told the prophet Jeremiah — that Jerusalem would stay destroyed and empty for exactly seventy years before God would restore it.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Sometimes you have to do the reading to understand God's timeline.
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