And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

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

Then these presidents and satraps came in a body to the king, and said thus unto him: King Darius, live for ever!

Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

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

And 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 son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, - who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:

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

I, therefore, in the first year of Darius the Mede, was at my station to strengthen and embolden him;