Daniel 6:1
Darius decided it would be good to place the kingdom under the control of one hundred and twenty provincial governors.
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Exodus 18:21But now you should choose men who are competent from among the people, men who respect God and who are trustworthy and not corrupt. Put them in charge of the people as leaders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.
Jeremiah 51:28Have the armies of the nations prepare for battle against her. This applies to the kings of the Medes, their leaders and all their officers, and every country they rule.
Daniel 9:1It was the first year of Darius the Mede, son of Ahasuerus, after he had become king of the Babylonians.
1 Peter 2:14or governors that God appoints to punish those who do evil and to commend those who do 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 →