and Darius of Media or of Medes was successor to the realm, and he was two and sixty years eld.
And I shall bring on that land all my words which I spake against it, all thing that is written in this book; whatever things Jeremy prophesied against all folks;
Babylon, I have snared thee, and thou art taken, and thou knewest not; thou art found, and taken, for thou stirredest the Lord to wrath.
Forsooth from the first year of Darius of Media, I stood, that he should be comforted, and made strong.
Phares, thy realm is parted, and is given to Medes and Persians.
It pleased Darius, and he ordained sixscore dukes over the realm, that they should be in all his realm.
In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of Medes, that was emperor on the realm of Chaldees,