And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;

Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.

Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict.

Then king Darius wrote unto all the peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied unto you.

So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,

And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.