Daniel 6:1
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;
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Exodus 18:21Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Jeremiah 51:28Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion!
Daniel 9:1In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans—
1 Peter 2:14or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.
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 →