MeanMrMustard
I am glad that you have read both Jonsson and Furuli. Your claim of the commitment of logical fallacies by Furuli and my good self is simply 'hot air' on your part.
Verses 1-9 provide the context for this chapter and it is the context that proves that the 70 years specifically applies to Judah as recent scholarship on the subject shows.
The Bible provides a detailed history of what befell Judah thus a Chronology can then be made but this is not the case with the other nations for which no details are given as to their particulars periods of servitude apply.
No it does matter that the seventy years was a period of servitude, exile and desolation running from the fall to the Return.
The verse 18 follows on from what is stated in vs. 12 which deals with the nations, first Babylon beginning after the 70 years had elapsed in 537 BCE
Nope the calling into account for Babylon only commenced after the 70 years had finished in 537 and not 539 BCE as shown by recent scholarship.
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