Lars *** The 70-year period of exile began with the last deportastion (year 23 of Neb2) and ended in the 1st of Cyrus -- per the Bible.****
Before Jerusalem's destruction, Jeremiah sent the following letter to the exiles, consistant with Marthew 1, and Ezra 2..."Jechonian and his group."
Jeremiah 29
A Letter to the Exiles
29 This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets and all the other people Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 2 (This was after King Jehoiachin [a] and the queen mother, the court officials and the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the skilled workers and the artisans had gone into exile from Jerusalem.) 3 He entrusted the letter to Elasah son of Shaphan and to Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. ".................
----10 This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. Matthew1, Ezra 2
Lars it shows clearly here in the Bible that it is the exiles that were taken with Jechoniah that were told in a letter approx. 10 years BEFORE the destruction of Jerusalem that they personally would be in exile during the 70 years of Babylonian rule...These were the exiled group that came back with Zerrubabel as shown in Ezra 2, when Babylon lost power to Cyrus the Persian and Darius the Mede came to power.
Please show me EXACT scriptures that show the exiles that you are talking about, i.e. """" last deportastion (year 23 of Neb2)"""" because when this letter was written they were NOT in exile, show scriptures like I have done, if you want to claim Biblical authority and NOT secular (Josephus).