Daniel 5:31

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Then Darius the Mede, who was sixty-two years old, took over his kingdom.

Cross References

Jeremiah 25:13

My servant Jeremiah has told you what I said I will do to Babylonia and to the other nations, and he wrote it all down in this book. I will do everything I threatened.

Jeremiah 50:24

Babylonia challenged me, the LORD God All-Powerful, but that nation doesn't know it is caught in a trap that I set.

Daniel 11:1

You also need to know that I protected and helped Darius the Mede in his first year as king.

Daniel 6:1

Darius divided his kingdom into a hundred and twenty states and placed a governor in charge of each one.

Daniel 9:1

Daniel wrote: Some years later, Darius the Mede, who was the son of Xerxes, had become king of Babylonia. And during his first year as king, I found out from studying the writings of the prophets that the LORD had said to Jeremiah, “Jerusalem will lie in ruins for seventy years.”