Text: Jeremiah 25:11
OT Text Referred to: 2 Chronicles 36:21
Subject: Jeremiah's seventy years
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment
Significance: Jeremiah 25:11 prophesies that "these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years" (שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה, shiv'im shanah), while 2 Chronicles 36:21 retrospectively interprets this prophecy as fulfilled: "to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbath rests... seventy years." The Chronicler explicitly credits Jeremiah as the prophetic source and adds a theological interpretation: the seventy years correspond to the accumulated Sabbath-year violations (drawing on Lev 26:34-35), so that the exile allowed the land to "enjoy its Sabbath rests." This transforms Jeremiah's specific time prediction into a covenantal theology of land-rest, showing that the exile's duration was not arbitrary but divinely calculated according to Israel's Sabbatical debt.