Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 25:11

11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years .

This prophesie is a famous prophesie in regard of its fixing the particular space of time in which the Jews abode in the Captivity of Babylon, viz. seventy years, when they determined we are plainly enough told, Ezra 1.1. in the first year of Cyrus the King of Persia, but when they commenced is more disputed, for we read of three carryings into that Captivity. The one in the third and fourth year of Iehojachim, when it should seem that Nebuchadrezzar, onely carried away some few persons to be bred in his Court, amongst whom were Daniel and the Three Children, Dan. 1.1, 2, &c. A second seven years after in Ieconiahs time, 2 Kings 24.15, 16. The last and most general 11 years after, in the 11th. year of Zedekiah, it seemeth most probable that the seventy years must be reckoned from the second, for Ieremiah chap. 29.1, 2, 3. writings to those then in Captivity tells them that when seventy years should be accomplished, God would bring them back. This is confirmed by Ezekiel chap. 40.1. where the fourteenth year after the taking of the City is expresly said to be the twenty fifth year of their Captivity.