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,

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

²¹ And Daniel is unto the first year of Cyrus the king.

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

¹ It hath been good before Darius, and he hath established over the kingdom satraps -- a hundred and twenty -- that they may be throughout the whole kingdom,

²⁸ And this Daniel hath prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.