Daniel 11:1

And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede I was on his side to make his position safe and make him strong.

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Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.

In Context

2And now I will make clear to you what is true. There are still three kings to come in Persia, and the fourth will have much greater wealth than all of them: and when he has become strong through his wealth, he will put his forces in motion against all the kingdoms of Greece.

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Cross References

Daniel 9:1In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldaeans;

Acts 14:22Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 11:1

The angel Gabriel, in this chapter, performs his promise made to Daniel in the foregoing chapter, that he would "show him what should befal his people in the latter days," according to that which was "written in the scriptures of truth:" very particularly does he here foretel the succession of the kings of Persia and Grecia, and the affairs of their kingdoms, especially the mischief which Antiochus Epiphanes did in his time to the church, which was foretold before ( ch. viii. 11-12 ). Here is, I. A brief… Read the whole commentary →

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