Daniel 9:1

Now 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.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

2During the first year that he was the king, I, Daniel, was studying/reading the holy books/Scriptures the message that Yahweh had given to the prophet Jeremiah. In that message Jeremiah had written that Jerusalem would be destroyed and remain ruined for seventy years.

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Cross References

Daniel 5:31Darius, the King of Media, became the King of Babylonia when he was 62 years old.

Daniel 6:28So I was successful all during the time that Darius ruled and during the time that Cyrus, the King of Persia, ruled.

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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