It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
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Gill's Exposition
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes,.... This is the same Darius mentioned in the latter part of the preceding chapter; who, as soon as he took the kingdom of…
Barnes' Notes
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom - Evidently over the kingdom of Babylon, now united to that of Media and Persia. As this was now subject to him, and tributary to him, it would be natural to…
Adam Clarke
A hundred and twenty princes - A chief or satrap over every province which belonged to the Medo-Persian empire. Afterwards we find it enlarged to one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, by the…
We are told concerning Daniel,
I. What a great man he was. When Darius, upon his accession to the crown of Babylon by conquest, new-modelled the government, he made Daniel prime-minister of state, set…
Cambridge Bible
an hundred and twenty satraps] see on Dan 3:2. No other notice of this organization has come down to us. The Persian empire was first organised into provinces under -satraps" by Darius Hystaspis (522…