Editing Book of Daniel (section)

=== Vision of the Seventy Weeks (chapter 9) ===
{{Main|Prophecy of Seventy Weeks}}
In the first year of Darius the Mede, Daniel meditates on the word of [[Book of Jeremiah|Jeremiah]] that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years; he confesses the [[sin of Israel]] and pleads for God to restore Israel and the "desolated sanctuary" of the Temple. The angel [[Gabriel]] explains that the seventy years stand for seventy "weeks" of years (490 years), during which the Temple will first be restored, then later defiled by a "prince who is to come," "until the decreed end is poured out."{{sfn|Levine|2010|pp=1251–1252}}