The Plot against Daniel

6 Darius decided^[a] to appoint 120 satraps over the kingdom, stationed throughout the realm,

Daniel’s Prayer

9 In the first year of Darius,^(A) the son of Ahasuerus, a Mede by birth, who was ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:

11 ¹ In the first year of Darius the Mede,^(A) I stood up to strengthen and protect him.