Daniel 11:1
In the first year of Darius the Mede, I myself came to support and protect Michael.
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Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.
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Cross References
Daniel 5:31and Darius the Mede received the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old.
Daniel 9:1Darius was the son of Ahasuerus, a descendant of the Medes. It was Ahasuerus who had been made king over the realm of the Babylonians.
Acts 14:22They kept strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith, saying, “We must enter into the kingdom of God through many sufferings.”
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 →