Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

So Darius the Mede received the kingdom at about the age of sixty-two.

It seemed good to Darius to appoint 120 satraps over the kingdom, that they would be in charge of the whole kingdom,

Then these commissioners and satraps came by agreement to the king and spoke to him as follows: “King Darius, live forever!

Therefore King Darius signed the document, that is, the injunction.

Then Darius the king wrote to all the peoples, nations and men of every language who were living in all the land: “May your peace abound!

So this Daniel enjoyed success in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans—

“In the first year of Darius the Mede, I arose to be an encouragement and a protection for him.