Daniel 11:1

I, therefore, in the first year of Darius the Mede, was at my station to strengthen and embolden him;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

2and, now, the truth, I will tell thee:—Lo! there are, yet three kings, to arise—belonging to Persia, and, the fourth, will amass greater riches than they all, and, when he hath strengthened himself in his riches, the whole, will stir up, the kingdom of Greece.

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Cross References

Daniel 5:31And, Darius the Mede, received the kingdom,—when about sixty-two years of age.

Daniel 9:1In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes,—who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:

Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, beseeching them to abide in the faith, and [declaring] that, through many tribulations, must we enter into the kingdom of God.

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 →

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