◄ Daniel 9:1 ►
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Good News Translation
Darius the Mede, who was the son of Xerxes, ruled over the kingdom of Babylonia.

New Revised Standard Version
In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, by birth a Mede, who became king over the realm of the Chaldeans—

New American Bible
It was the first year that Darius, son of Ahasuerus, of the race of the Medes, reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans;

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the first year of Darius, the son of Assuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In the first year of Darius, the son of Assuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:

A.

3466. B.C.

538. Darius.

Daniel 1:21 And Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus.

Daniel 5:31 And Darius, the Mede, succeeded to the kingdom, being threescore and two years old.

Daniel 6:1,28 It seemed good to Darius, and he appointed over the kingdom a hundred and twenty governors, to be over his whole kingdom. . . .

Daniel 11:1 And from the first year of Darius, the Mede, I stood up, that he might be strengthened, and confirmed.

Ahasuerus.

14:15, where the taking of Nineveh is ascribed to Nebuchadnezzar and Assuerus, who were the same with Nabopolassar and Astyages.

which.

Context
Daniel's Prayer for His People
1In the first year of Darius, the son of Assuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:2The first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by books the number of the years, concerning which the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, the prophet, that seventy years should be accomplished of the desolation of Jerusalem.…
Cross References
Ezra 4:6
And in the reign of Assuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Juda and Jerusalem.

Esther 1:1
In the days of Assuerus, who reigned from India to Ethiopia over a hundred and twenty seven provinces:

Daniel 1:4
Children in whom there was no blemish, well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, acute in knowledge, and instructed in science, and such as might stand in the king's palace, that he might teach them the learning, and tongue of the Chaldeans.

Daniel 5:31
And Darius, the Mede, succeeded to the kingdom, being threescore and two years old.

Daniel 11:1
And from the first year of Darius, the Mede, I stood up, that he might be strengthened, and confirmed.

Daniel 8:27
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