Then the iron, the fired clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were shattered and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of 62.

Darius decided to appoint 120 satraps over the kingdom, stationed throughout the realm,

So the administrators and satraps went together to the king and said to him, “May King Darius live forever.

So King Darius signed the document.

Then King Darius wrote to those of every people, nation, and language who live in all the earth: “May your prosperity abound.

So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, a Mede by birth, who was ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:

In the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to strengthen and protect him.