Daniel 9:2
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2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to (A)the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
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Jeremiah 29:10
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10 “For thus says the Lord: (A)When seventy years are completed for Babylon, (B)I will visit you, (C)and I will fulfill to you my promise (D)and bring you back to this place.
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Jeremiah 25:11-12
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11 (A)This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and (B)these nations shall serve the king of Babylon (C)seventy years. 12 Then after (D)seventy years are completed, (E)I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, (F)the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, (G)making the land an everlasting waste.
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2 Chronicles 36:21
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21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had (A)enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate (B)it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
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Revelation 1:3
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3 (A)Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, (B)for the time is near.
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Ezra 1:1
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The Proclamation of Cyrus
1 (A)In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, (B)that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so (C)that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
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2 Peter 1:19-21
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19 And (A)we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention (B)as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until (C)the day (D)dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, 20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. 21 For (E)no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God (F)as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
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2 Timothy 3:15-17
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15 and how (A)from childhood you have been acquainted with (B)the sacred writings, (C)which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 (D)All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that (E)the man of God[a] may be complete, (F)equipped (G)for every good work.
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- 2 Timothy 3:17 That is, a messenger of God (the phrase echoes a common Old Testament expression)
Micah 3:12
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12 Therefore because of you
(A)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem (B)shall become a heap of ruins,
and (C)the mountain of the house (D)a wooded height.
1 Peter 1:10-12
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10 Concerning this salvation, (A)the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 11 inquiring (B)what person or time[a] (C)the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating (D)when he predicted (E)the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. 12 (F)It was revealed to them that (G)they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you (H)by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, (I)things into which angels long to look.
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- 1 Peter 1:11 Or what time or circumstances
1 Timothy 4:13
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13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.
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Acts 8:34
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34 And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?”
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Mark 13:14
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The Abomination of Desolation
14 “But when you see (A)the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be ((B)let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
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Matthew 24:15
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The Abomination of Desolation
15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation (A)spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in (B)the holy place ((C)let the reader understand),
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Daniel 8:15-16
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The Interpretation of the Vision
15 When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I (A)sought to understand it. And behold, there stood before me one having (B)the appearance of a man. 16 (C)And I heard a man's voice (D)between the banks of the (E)Ulai, and it called, (F)“Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”
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Lamentations 1:1
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How Lonely Sits the City
1 (A)How lonely sits the city
that was full of people!
How like (B)a widow has she become,
she who was great among the nations!
She who was (C)a princess among the provinces
has become (D)a slave.
Jeremiah 26:6
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6 then I will make this house (A)like Shiloh, and I will make this city (B)a curse for all the nations of the earth.’”
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Jeremiah 25:18
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18 (A)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, (B)to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;
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Jeremiah 7:34
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34 (A)And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, (B)for the land shall become a waste.
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Isaiah 64:10
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10 (A)Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
Isaiah 24:10-12
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10 (A)The wasted city is broken down;
(B)every house is shut up so that none can enter.
11 (C)There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine;
(D)all joy has grown dark;
the gladness of the earth is banished.
12 Desolation is left in the city;
the gates are battered into ruins.
Isaiah 6:11-12
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11 Then I said, (A)“How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until (B)cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,
12 and the Lord removes people far away,
and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
Psalm 119:99-100
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99 I have more understanding than all my teachers,
for (A)your testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than (B)the aged,[a]
for I (C)keep your precepts.
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- Psalm 119:100 Or the elders
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