Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 25:12

12 And it shall come to pass when the seventy years are accomplished , that I will punish the King of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Caldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations .

Seventy years accounted from the time that the Jews were carried away in the time of Ieconiah or Iehojakin, 2 Kings 24.15, 16.

This was fulfilled by Darius the King of Persia, Dan. 5.31 of these 70 Nebuchadnezzar reigned 36. 2 Kings 25.27. Evil-Merodach 32. and Belshazzar at least two, Dan. 8.1. Tho' God whose all the Creation is, and who is the Lord of all the Hosts of his Creatures doth often make use of Heathens, and other wicked men to punish his own people, yet he will at last punish them, and ordinarily when he doth punish them, it is with a more severe, and grievous destruction then that by which he punisheth his people, Isa. 27.7. thus he threatens to make the Caldeans a perpetual desolation.

Marginal references: 2 Chro. 36.21, 22. Ezr. 1.1. Chap. 29.10. Dan. 9.2.; Heb. visit upon.; Isa. 13.19. and 14.23. and 21.1. and 47.1. Chap. 50.40. and 51.25.