And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being a son of sixty-two years.

It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, that they might be over the whole kingdom.

Then these presidents and rulers assembled to the king, and said this to him: King Darius, live forever.

Therefore King Darius signed the writing and the ban.

Then King Darius wrote to all people, nations, and languages who dwell in all the earth. Peace be multiplied to you.

And this Daniel was blessed 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 I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I was standing for a supporter and for a fortress for him.