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

And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;

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

Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

Then king Darius wrote unto all people, 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.

Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, there in front of the canal stood a [lone] ram (the Medo-Persian Empire) which had two horns. The two horns were high, but one (Persia) was higher than the other (Media), and the higher one came up last.

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

In year one of King Darius the Mede, I arose to fortify and strengthen him.'"

Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.

So after that he hath taken truce with him, he shall handle deceitfully, that he may get up, and overcome him with a small flock: