^{2 Ref} in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, have understood by books the number of the years, (in that a word of Jehovah hath been unto Jeremiah the prophet,) concerning the fulfilling of the wastes of Jerusalem -- seventy years;

^{3 Ref} and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek `by' prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.