So Darius the Mede received the kingdom when he was sixty-two years old.
These things happened during the first year Darius son of Xerxes was king over Babylon. He was a descendant of the Medes.
After he became king, Darius the Mede decided to subdivide his kingdom into 120 provinces and strategically appointed a governor for each province.
You defied me and fought against me, Babylon, so I laid a trap for you. You were caught before you knew it!
“Peres: God has divided up your kingdom and given it to the Medes and the Persians.”
In the first year that Darius the Mede was king, I stood up to support Michael and fought with him against the prince of Persia.
I will bring against that land all my words of warning that I have spoken against it, everything written in this scroll, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.