Daniel 6:1
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be in all the kingdom;
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Exodus 18:21But do thou provide among all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [them] over them, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens,
Jeremiah 51:28Prepare nations against her, the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their rulers, yea, all the land of their dominion.
Daniel 9:1In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,
1 Peter 2:14or to rulers as sent by him, for vengeance on evildoers, and praise to them that 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 →