a careful reading of Jeremiah 25:11-12 reveals that the 70-year period applied, not to Jerusalem’s desolation, but to the subjugation of Judah and surrounding nations to Babylonian rule. Furthermore, Jeremiah’s 70-year period is said to end not with the rebuilding of Jerusalem, but with the king of Babylon being “called to account”—which would refer to 539 B.C.E., when Babylon was captured by Cyrus the Great.
