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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
commencement of the seventy years’
captivity, B. C. 606. Jeremiah and Habakkuk
were yet uttering their prophecies. Ezekiel
commenced soon after, and a little later,
Obadiah; but both these finished their work
years before the close of the long and brilliant
career of Daniel. Three prophets only
succeeded him, Haggai and Zechariah, who
exercised the prophetic office for a brief
period contemporaneously, B. C. 520-518, and
Malachi, the last of the Old-Testament
prophets, who flourished a little season about
B. C. 397.
During the seventy years’ captivity of the Jews,
B. C. 606-536, predicted by Jeremiah (Jer.
25:11), Daniel resided at the court of Babylon,
most of the time prime minister of that
brilliant monarchy. His life affords a most
impressive lesson of the importance and
