Darius
Father: Ahasuerus
Several people in the Bible have this name. The verses below may mix them up.
Mentioned in 8 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.
Where Darius is mentioned
Daniel 5:30–31
30 That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
31 and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
Read in contextDaniel 6:1–2
1 Now it pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom,
2 and over them three administrators, including Daniel, to whom these satraps were accountable so that the king would not suffer loss.
Read in contextDaniel 6:6
So the administrators and satraps went together to the king and said, “O King Darius, may you live forever!
Read in contextDaniel 6:9
Therefore King Darius signed the written decree.
Read in contextDaniel 6:25
Then King Darius wrote to the people of every nation and language throughout the land: “May your prosperity abound.
Read in contextDaniel 6:28
So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Read in contextDaniel 9:1–2
1 In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes, a Mede by descent, who was made ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans —
2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
Read in contextDaniel 11:1
“And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, stood up to strengthen and protect him.
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