Daniel 11:1
'And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, my standing [is] for a strengthener, and for a stronghold to him;
Young's Literal Translation
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
Cross References
Daniel 5:31and Darius the Mede hath received the kingdom, when a son of sixty and two years.
Daniel 9:1In the first year of Darius, son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who hath been made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,
Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign 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 →