Why the 70-year exile and not more?
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See https://lifehopeandtruth.com/prophecy/understanding-the-book-of-daniel/daniel-9/
This article quotes the Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary. The 70 years was “the exact number of years of Sabbaths in four hundred and ninety years, the period from Saul to the Babylonian captivity."
- Disobedience to the Ten Commandments was judged by forty years of wandering in the desert.
- Disobedience during the times of the judges was punished by periodic oppressions by neighboring peoples like the Moabites, Philistines, Canaanites, etc.
- The exile was specifically a judgement against the kingdom of Israel/Judah, which began with Saul.
The cited article makes an interesting point: there were two overlapping 70-year exiles.
- Seventy years from first deportation to Cyrus' edict permitting return.
- Seventy years from destruction of Solomon's temple until the construction of a new temple.
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