Forty days] the years of Judah's captivity and of Babylon's supremacy (Ezekiel 29:11). The return of the exiles took place about 538 b.c., fifty-nine years after the first and forty-eight years after the second captivity. If the number 40 is not taken from Numbers 14:34 (see the note above), it is a round number, meaning 'more than a generation.'

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