Daniel 11:1
And I myself, in the first year of Darius the Mede, took my stand to support and defend him.
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Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.
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Daniel 5:31and Darius the Mede was given the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
Daniel 9:1It was the first year of Darius the Mede, son of Ahasuerus, after he had become king of the Babylonians.
Acts 14:22They encouraged the believers to remain firm and to continue to trust in Jesus. “We have to go through many trials to enter God's kingdom,” they said.
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 →