The Gentile Times Reconsidered Chronology Christ

The Seventy Years for Babylon 215
The seventy years "for Babylon"
"The sense of the Hebrew original might even be rendered
thus: ‘After seventy years of (the rule of) Babylon are
accomplished etc.’ The seventy years counted here evidently
refer to Babylon and not to the Judeans or to their captivity.
They mean seventy years of Babylonian rule, the end of which
will see the redemption of the exiles"—Dr. Avigdor On, "The
seventy years of Babylon," Vetus Testamentum, Vol. VI (1956), p.
305.
"It is appropriate to begin with the passages of Jeremiah and to
observe, with On, that the references in Jer. 25:11-12 and
29:10—whether original to the passages or not—are to a period
of seventy years of Babylonian rule, and not to a period of
seventy years of actual captivity"—Dr. Peter R. Ackroyd, "Two
Old Testament historical problems of the early Persian period,"
Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. XVII (1958), p. 23.
"Certainly it must be stressed that the seventy years refer
primarily to the time of Babylonian world dominion and not to
the time of the exile, as is often carelessly supposed. As an
estimate of Babylon’s domination of the ancient Near East it
was a remarkably accurate figure, for from the Battle of
Carchemish (605) to the fall of Babylon to Cyrus (539) was
sixty-six years"—Professor Norman K. Gottwald, All the
Kingdoms of the Earth (New York, Evanston, London: Harper &
Row, Publishers, 1964), pp. 265, 266.
"It has often been pointed out that the textually
unobjectionable verse with its seventy years does not have in
view the length of the exile , but rather the duration of the
Babylonian dominion, which from its beginning until the
Persian conquest of Babylon may be calculated to about seven
decades. "—Dr. Otto Plöger, Aus der Spätzeit des Alten Testaments
(Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971), p. 68. (Translated
from the German.)
C: DANIEL 9:1–2
The Babylonian dominion was definitely broken when the armies
of Cyrus the Persian captured Babylon in the night between the
12 th and 13 th October, 539 B.C.E. (Julian calendar). Previously in
the same night Belshazzar, the son of king Nabonidus and his
deputy on the throne, got to know that the days of Babylon were
numbered. Daniel the prophet, in his interpretation of the
miraculous writing on the wall, told him that “God has numbered