“Now I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood to strengthen and to be a fortress for him.
Bless Yahweh, you His angels, Mighty in strength, who perform His word, Obeying the voice of His word!
Then this one with the appearance of a man touched me again and strengthened me.
So Darius the Mede received the kingdom at about the age of sixty-two.
It seemed good to Darius that he set 120 satraps over the kingdom, that they would be in charge of the whole kingdom,
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, from the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans—
strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, “Through many afflictions we must enter the kingdom of God.”