Reading for June 23rd

Read Daniel 9.1-27 The seventy weeks.
This chapter applies Jeremiah's prophecy of a 70-year exile (Jer 25.11, 12; 29.10)
together with the calculation of the jubilee year (Lev 25.8-17; "seven weeks of years")
to predict the end of Antiochus's persecution.
In verse 1 Ahasuerus: The Hebrew name for the Persian ruler Xerxes (see Esth 1.1; Ezra 4.6).
Xerxes I (486-465 BCE) was the son of Darius I, and Xerxes II (425 BCE)
was the son of Artaxerxes I (465-425 BCE).
Darius II (423-405 BCE) was the son of Xerxes II, and Darius III (336-330 BCE), the son of Arses (338-336 BCE), was the last ruler of Persia; he was assassinated shortly after Alexander's final defeat of the Persian army.
In verses 2-19 prayer and supplication: Daniel employs a form of communal confession and petition (compare Ezra 9.6-15; Neh 1.5-11; 9.6-37).
In verse 11 the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses: See Lev 26.14-45;
Deut 28.15-68; 29.10-29.
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