Seventy Years

 Jer 25:12

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‘Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the LORD; ‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation.

Jer 29:10

For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.

Note: I am actively trying to determine exactly when the seventy years began.  But I came across this reference and it immediately caught my attention.

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