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The story concludes: "That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean (Babylonian) king was killed, and Darius the Mede received the kingdom." [3] In the story of Daniel in the lions' den , Daniel has continued to serve at the royal court under Darius, and has been raised to high office. His jealous rivals plot his downfall, tricking Darius into ...
Articles related to Darius the Mede, a mythological King of Babylon depicted in the Book of Daniel. Pages in category "Darius the Mede" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Darius organized the empire by dividing it into administrative provinces, each governed by a satrap. He organized Achaemenid coinage as a new uniform monetary system, and he made Aramaic a co-official language of the empire alongside Persian. He also put the empire in better standing by building roads and introducing standard weights and measures.
The Median dynasty was, according to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, a dynasty composed of four kings who ruled for 150 years under the Median Empire. [1] If Herodotus' story is accurate, the Medes were unified by a man named Deioces, the first of the four kings who would rule the Median Empire; a mighty empire that included large parts of Iran and eastern Anatolia.
In Lange's commentary, Otto Zöckler named Gesenius, Hengestenberg, and other more recent writers who equated Cyaxares II with Daniel's Darius the Mede. [9] These commentaries noted similarities between Cyaxares II as portrayed by Xenophon and what may be inferred about Darius the Mede from the sparse statements about him in the Book of Daniel.
In 1957, Wiseman proposed the identification of Darius the Mede in the Book of Daniel with Cyrus the Great. [12] Daniel 6:28 says "So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian" . This could also be translated, "So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius, that is, the reign of Cyrus the Persian."
Ahasuerus is given as the name of the father of Darius the Mede in the Book of Daniel. [23] Josephus names Astyages as the father of Darius the Mede, and the description of the latter as uncle and father-in-law of Cyrus by mediaeval Jewish commentators matches that of Cyaxares II, who is said to be the son of Astyages by Xenophon. Thus this ...
In his version, Cyrus, while in the service of Astyages in Media, came into contact with a certain groom named Oebares, who was a slave to a Mede. Astyages cruelly punished Oebares for some offense. As a result, Oebares conspired against the king and incited Cyrus to lead a revolt against the Medes. And so, the war began.