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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
punishment even unto death; in other

words, to restore the Jewish state, civil and

ecclesiastical, according to the law of God and

the ancient customs of that people. Inspiration

has seen fit to preserve this decree; and a full

and accurate copy of it is given in the seventh

chapter of the book of Ezra. In the original, this

decree is given, not in Hebrew, like the rest of

the book of Ezra, but in the Chaldaic (or

Eastern Aramaic), the language then used at

Babylon; and thus we are furnished with the

original document by virtue of which Ezra was

authorized to restore and build Jerusalem.

Thirteen years after this, in the twentieth year

of the same king, B. C. 444, Nehemiah sought

and obtained permission to go up to

Jerusalem. Nehemiah 2. Permission was

granted him, but we have no evidence that it