But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Dari´us: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the Lord like the house of Ahab: for they were his counselors, after the death of his father, to his destruction.
But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.