Daniel 6:1

It pleased Darius, and so he appointed over the kingdom one hundred twenty governors, to be placed throughout his whole kingdom.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

2And over these, three leaders, of whom Daniel was one, so that the governors would be accountable to them and the king would have no trouble.

Read all of Daniel 6

Cross References

Exodus 18:21Then provide, from all of the people, men capable and fearing God, in whom there is truth and who hate avarice, and appoint from them tribunes, and leaders of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,

Jeremiah 51:28Sanctify the nations against her: the kings of Media, their military leaders, and all their civil leaders, and the entire land under their authority.

Daniel 9:1In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who ruled over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,

1 Peter 2:14or to leaders as having been sent from him for vindication over evildoers, it is truly for the praise of what is good.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Daniel 6:1