and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two.
I will bring on that land all the things I have spoken against it, all that are written in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations.
I set a trap for you, Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it; you were found and captured because you opposed the Lord.
And in the first year of Darius the Mede, I took my stand to support and protect him.)
Peres : Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom,
In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom—