And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book that Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
I set a snare for you, and you were caught, O Babylon, but you did not know it; you were discovered and seized because you challenged the Lord.
“As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to support and strengthen him.
peres: your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
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,