“As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to support and strengthen him.
Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his bidding, obedient to his spoken word.
Again one in human form touched me and strengthened me.
And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty satraps, stationed throughout the whole kingdom,
In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, by birth a Mede, who became king over the realm of the Chaldeans,
There they strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”