¹ `And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, my standing `is' for a strengthener, and for a stronghold to him;

³¹ and Darius the Mede hath received the kingdom, when a son of sixty and two years.

¹ In the first year of Darius, son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who hath been made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,

¹⁸ `And he addeth, and striketh against me, as the appearance of a man, and strengtheneth me,

²² confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,