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Daniel 6:1

\5:31\And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being then about sixty-two years old.

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In The King James Version

It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;

In Context

2\6:1\Darius was pleased to put over the kingdom a hundred and twenty captains, who were to be all through the kingdom;

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Cross References

Exodus 18:21But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;

Jeremiah 51:28Make the nations ready for war against her, the king of the Medes and his rulers and all his captains, and all the land under his rule.

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;

1 Peter 2:14And those of the rulers who are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of those who do well.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 6:1

Daniel does not give a continued history of the reigns in which he lived, nor of the state-affairs of the kingdoms of Chaldea and Persia, though he was himself a great man in those affairs; for what are those to us? But he selects such particular passages of story as serve for the confirming of our faith in God and the encouraging of our obedience to him, for the things written aforetime were written for our learning. It is a very observable improvable story that we have in this chapter, how Daniel by faith… Read the whole commentary →

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