IN] The beginning and end of the seventy yeers captivitie, is from Nebuchadnezzars first, unto the first of Darius: and Daniel was in Babylon the whole time, as is plain in this Chapter vers. 1. and 21. Jeremy in the first of Nebuchadnezzar telleth, that nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy yeers, Jeremiah 25:11. So the account must be from Babels first. See 2 Chron. 36. 21. third yeer of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah] This third yeer ended and the fourth begun was Nebuchadnezzars first, Jeremiah 25:1. See 2 Kings 24:1. Now lest the desolation of Jerusalem, spoken of Jer 25:11. should make the unacquainted stagger, we must know that the land payd her sabbaths, Leviticus 26:34. and rested 70. yeers, 2 Chronicles 36:21. from the first captivitie to the end of Babels reign: for in most exact truth, the desolation and rest was in part from the first battering of Jerusalem, and carriage of any from the countrey. came Nbuchadnezzar king of Babylon] 2 Kings 24:1. 2 Chronicles 36:6.