Well I never said Daniel was a Jew. As I'm sure you know the southern house is Judah, Bejamin, and some Levites...while the northern house is the rest of the tribes, and some Levites. Recall the reason for Daniel's prayer...
Daniel 9:2
2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
70 Years as detailed in the book of Jeremiah. Well let's see what Jeremiah says...
Jeremiah 25:1-3
The word came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. So Jeremiah the prophet said to all the people of Judah and to all those living in Jerusalem: For twenty-three years—from the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—the word of the Lord has come to me and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
Jehoiakim was only the king of Judah because by this time the northern house had already been judged to go into exile for their sins. The kingdom of Judah still existed at this time and Jeremiah was pronouncing punishment on THEM next in the name of the Almighty (after multiple warnings by multiple prophets).
Jeremiah 25:11-14 [brackets mine]
11 This whole country [Jerusalem] will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12 “But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians, for their guilt,” declares the Lord, “and will make it desolate forever. 13 I will bring on that land all the things I have spoken against it, all that are written in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations. 14 They themselves will be enslaved by many nations and great kings; I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”
The 70 years were for the kingdom of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Notice what Hosea says...Hosea's prophecy was given to both houses during the time JUST BEFORE the N. kingdom of Israel was ended. So Hosea is before Jeremiah.
Hosea 1:1-10
This is the word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and of Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel.
2 When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”
3 So Hosea went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
4 Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel. And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”
6 Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them. Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”
8 After she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, Gomer conceived and gave birth to a son. And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
10 Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
The Almighty said that he would no longer forgive the northern house but he would have compassion on the southern house a bit more...but by the time of Jehoiakim (which was roughtly 120 some odd years later) the Almighty was fed up with the southern house too and so pronounced judgment on them. Notice how Jeremiah 3:8 reads...
Jeremiah 3:8
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
The Almighty: "ok so for adultery I divorced the northern house...but you then go and also act like a whore too, Judah?"
So the 70 Years punishment was for the southern house; the Jews...but then 7 times more punishment was added on because they did not repent.
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