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[1] {Darius the Median}
The biblical order of the monarchs of Daniel's time, and of the period of
the captivity and restoration of Judah, is as follows:
(1) Nebuchadnezzar (B.C. 604-561) with whom the captivity of Judah and
the "times of the Gentiles"
» See Note "Lu 21:24"
» See Note "Re 16.19" began, and who established the first of the four
world monarchies.
# Da 2:37,38 7:4
(2) Belshazzar (prob B.C. 556), the Bel-shar-uzzar of the inscriptions,
grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, and son of the victorious general
Nabonidus. Belshazzar seems to have reigned as viceroy.
(3) Darius the Mede
# Da 5:31 6:1-27 9:1
Concerning this Darius secular history awaits further discoveries,
as formerly in the case of Belshazzar. He has been conjectured to
be identical with Gobryas, a Persian general. This Darius was "the
son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over
the realm of the Chaldeans"
# Da 9:1
"Ahasuerus," more a title than a name, the equivalent of the
modern "Majesty," is used in Scripture of at least four personages, and
is Persian rather than Median. That Darius the Mede was the "son" (or
grandson) of an Ahasuerus proves no more than that he was, probably,
through the seed of his mother, of the seed royal not only of Media,
but also of Persia. There is but one Darius in Daniel. (See
# Da 9:1
(4) Cyrus, with whose rise to power came fully into existence the
Medo-Persian, second of the world-empires
# Da 2:39 7:5
In Daniel's vision of this empire in "the third year of the reign
of King Belshazzar"
# Da 8:1-4
the Median power of Darius is seen as the
lesser of the two horns of the ram; the Persian power of Cyrus, under
whom the Medo-Persian power was consolidated, as the "higher" horn
which "came up last." Under Cyrus, who was prophetically named more
than a century before his birth.
# Isa 44:28 45:1-4
the return to Palestine of the Jewish remnant began.
# Ezr 1:1-4
See
# Da 11:2
marg. ref.
29893
[1] {great sea}
The "sea" in Scripture imagery stands for the populace, the mere
unorganized mass of mankind
# Mt 13:47 Re 13:1
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[1] {little horn}
The vision is of the end of Gentile world-dominion. The former Roman
empire (the iron kingdom of
# Da 2:33-35,40-44 7:7
will have ten horns (i.e. kings,
# Re 17:12
corresponding to the ten toes of the image. As Daniel considers this
vision of the ten kings, there rises up amongst them a "little horn"
(king), who subdues three of the ten kings so completely that the
separate identity of their kingdoms is destroyed. Seven kings of the
ten are left, and the "little horn." He is the "king of fierce
countenance" typified by that other "king of fierce countenance,"
Antiochus Epiphanes,
# Da 8:23-25
the "prince that shall come" of
# Da 9:26,27
the "king" of
# Da 11:36-45
the "abomination" of
# Da 12:11 Mt 24:14
the "man of sin" of
# 2Th 2:4-8
and the "Beast" of
# Re 13:4-10
See "Beast"
# Da 7:8 Re 19:20