Daniel 5:31 KJV — MannaFest

Daniel 5:31

And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

KJV

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ASV

And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

WEB

and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.

YLT

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

DBT

And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, [being] about sixty-two years old.

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Daniel — A Hebrew exile at Babylonian and Persian courts sees empires rise and fall, a Son of Man coming with clouds, and seventy weeks locating Messiah in time. The canon's densest apocalyptic text — and its most interpretively contested.

Author: Daniel (traditional — Jesus cites ‘Daniel the prophet’ in Matt 24:15); critical scholarship dates composition to the 2nd c. BC Maccabean period (§7.9 — both surfaced)
Date: Traditional: 6th c. BC. Critical: c. 165 BC. Site default: traditional; critical view surfaced at depth 2

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9 verses on the floor

Daniel 9:1
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
Daniel 6:1
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
Daniel 5:28
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Daniel 11:1
Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.
Daniel 2:9
But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.

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Now in this sumptuous feast, 1. He put an affront upon the providence of God and bade defiance to his judgments. His city was now besieged; a powerful enemy was at his gates; his life and kingdom lay at stake.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

They were partners in war and conquest, and so they were in dominion, ch. vi. Notice is taken of his age, that he was now sixty-two years old, for which reason Cyrus, who was his nephew, gave him the precedency.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Darius the Median--that is, Cyaxares II, the son and successor of Astyages, 569-536 B.C. Though Koresh, or Cyrus, was leader of the assault, yet all was done in the name of Darius; therefore, he alone is mentioned here; but Da 6:28 shows Daniel was not ignorant of Cyrus' share in the capture of Babylon.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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