Daniel 6:1
It seemed good to Darius, and he appointed over the kingdom a hundred and twenty governors to be over his whole kingdom.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Exodus 18:21And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens.
Jeremiah 51:28Prepare the nations against her, the kings of Media, their captains, and all their rulers, and all the land of their dominion.
Daniel 9:1In the first year of Darius the son of Assuerus of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:
1 Peter 2:14Or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of the 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 →