^{1 Ref} "As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.

^{2 Ref} Now will I show you the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and when he has grown strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.