Daniel 6:1

Now it pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom,

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In The King James Version

It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;

In Context

2and over them three administrators, including Daniel, to whom these satraps were accountable so that the king would not suffer loss.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:21Furthermore, select capable men from among the people—God-fearing, trustworthy men who are averse to dishonest gain. Appoint them over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Jeremiah 51:28Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.

Daniel 9:1In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes, a Mede by descent, who was made ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans—

1 Peter 2:14or to governors as those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.

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 →

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