Daniel 11:1
“As for me, during the first year that Darius was king, I helped and encouraged Michael.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.
In Context
Cross References
Daniel 5:31Darius, the King of Media, became the King of Babylonia when he was 62 years old.
Daniel 9:1Now I am going to tell you about what happened when Darius, who was from the Mede people-group and who was the son of Xerxes, ruled as the King of Babylonia.
Acts 14:22In each city, they helped the believers [SYN] to become strong spiritually, and they urged them to keep on trusting in the Lord Jesus. They told the believers, “It is necessary that we endure people often persecuting us (inc) before we enter the place where God will rule over us forever.”
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 →