Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Daniel 9:1

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1. first year of Darius —Cyaxares II, in whose name Cyrus, his nephew, son-in-law, and successor, took Babylon, 538 B.C. The date of this chapter is therefore 537 B.C., a year before Cyrus permitted the Jews to return from exile, and sixty-nine years after Daniel had been carried captive at the beginning of the captivity, 606 B.C. son of Ahasuerus —called Astyages by XENOPHON. Ahasuerus was a name common to many of the kings of Medo-Persia. made king —The phrase implies that Darius owed the kingdom not to his own prowess, but to that of another, namely, Cyrus. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-2" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-dan-9-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/dan-9-1

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological