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• Daniel was taken into captivity at the very start of the exile into Babylon, at the very start of those seventy years. And he remained in Babylon for the whole period, and was alive at the end of it. Thus, we read at the end of Daniel chapter 1:
• Dan 1:21 And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus.
• But more importantly, Daniel, as a Jew faithful to the God of heaven, knew well the earlier prophecy of Jeremiah that the captivity would last seventy years. He must have been counting down the days, one by one. By the time the seventy years had passed, Daniel knew that the captivity was over:
• Dan. 9:2 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.