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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
understand all the forms and regulations of

civil, political, and judicial society. When did

such a command go forth? At the time these

words were spoken to Daniel, Jerusalem lay in

complete and utter desolation, and had thus

been lying for seventy years. The restoration,

pointed to in the future, must be its

restoration from this desolation. We then

inquire, When and how was Jerusalem

restored after the seventy years’ captivity?

There are but four events which can be taken

as answering to the commandment to restore

and build Jerusalem. These are, (1) The decree

of Cyrus for the rebuilding of the house of God,

B. C. 536 (Ezra 1:1-4); (2) The decree of Darius

for the prosecution of that work, which had

been hindered, B. C. 519 (Ezra 6:1-12); (3) The

decree of Artaxerxes to Ezra, B. C. 457 (Ezra