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• Dan. 5:30   In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. 31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
• Dan. 6:1   It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; 2 And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage. 3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
• In the Medo-Persian Empire, therefore, Jews rose to new positions of authority very quickly. Daniel was set first over all the three presidents, and all the princes of the realm had to give account to him.