Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.
And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
A stern vision is told to me; the traitor betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a Mede, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans—
Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed: “I will go before you and level the exalted places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron,
As for the ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia.
I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing on the bank of the canal. It had two horns, and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last. I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward. No beast could stand before him, and there was no one who could rescue from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.
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