1It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
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And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: …
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus,(this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)
Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We are told concerning Daniel, I. What a great man he was. When Darius, upon his accession to the crown of Babylon by conquest, new-modelled the government, he made Daniel prime-minister of state, set him at the helm, and made him first commissioner both of the treasury and of the great seal. Darius’s dominion was very large; all he got by his conquests and acquests was that he had so many more co…
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