Daniel 6:1

It pleased Darius to appoint over the kingdom 120 provincial governors who would rule over all the kingdom.

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

In Context

2Over them there were three chief administrators, and Daniel was one of them. These chief administrators were appointed so that they might supervise the provincial governors, so that the king should suffer no loss.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:21Furthermore, you must choose capable men from all the people, men who honor God, men of truth who hate unjust gain. You must put them over people, to be leaders in charge of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and of tens.

Jeremiah 51:28Prepare the nations to attack her: The kings of the Medes and his governors, 1 all of his officials and all the lands under his rule. 1

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.

1 Peter 2:14and also the governors, who are sent to punish evildoers and to praise those who do good.

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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