2And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.
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And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. …
And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Here, 1. The angel Gabriel lets Daniel know the good service he has done to the Jewish nation (Dan. 11:1): “ In the first year of Darius the Mede , who destroyed Babylon and released the Jews out of that house of bondage, I stood a strength and fortress to him , that is, I was instrumental to protect him, and give him success in his ward, and, after he had conquered Babylon, to confirm him in his…
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