Daniel 9:1

“In the first year of Darius, son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who has been made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,

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In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

In Context

2in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, have understood by scrolls the number of the years (in that a word of YHWH has been to Jeremiah the prophet), concerning the fulfilling of the desolations of Jerusalem—seventy years;

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Cross References

Daniel 5:31and Darius the Mede has received the kingdom when a son of sixty-two years.

Daniel 6:28And this Daniel has prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 9:1

In this chapter we have, I. Daniel's prayer for the restoration of the Jews who were in captivity, in which he confesses sin, and acknowledges the justice of God in their calamities, but pleads God's promises of mercy which he had yet in store for them, ver. 1-19 . II. An immediate answer sent him by an angel to his prayer, in which, 1. He is assured of the speedy release of the Jews out of their captivity, ver. 20-23 . And, 2. He is informed concerning the redemption of the world by Jesus Christ (of which that… Read the whole commentary →

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