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And phares, rending; Persian and Mede shall be thy successors in the kingdom that is torn from thy grasp. (Daniel 5, 28)
This Darius saw fit to appoint a hundred and twenty lords lieutenant, who should govern the provinces of his empire; (Daniel 6, 1)
and soon the king’s thought was, to put the whole empire under his care. Right gladly would his rivals have found opportunity to discredit him in the king’s eyes; but no, handle or pretext they could find none, so faithful was he, so far removed from all breath of suspicion. (Daniel 6, 4)
and enjoining this decree upon them, that all the subjects of his empire should hold the God of Daniel in awe and reverence. Here is a God that lives, he told them, a God that abides for ever; such a reign as his there is no overthrowing, such power as his the ages cannot diminish. (Daniel 6, 26)
Let Darius reign, or Cyrus the Persian, this same Daniel throve yet. (Daniel 6, 28)
Then what royalty, what empire, what earth-embracing dominion shall be theirs, the people set apart for the most High! Sovereignty everlasting; no monarch but must bow to its yoke.✻ (Daniel 7, 27)
And a warrior king shall arise, winning such empire that there is no resisting his will.✻ (Daniel 11, 3)
Divided that empire shall be, as soon as it is established, between the four quarters of heaven; not sons of his they shall be that rule it, nor peers of his; besides these, foreign lords shall part his dominions between them. (Daniel 11, 4)
When king Astyages became part of his line, it was Cyrus, the Persian, succeeded him.✻ (Daniel 13, 65)
empire it shall have over the Edomites, and all the Gentile folk I claim for my own. (Amos 9, 12)
No lack of champions Sion shall have, to do justice on the mountains of Edom; and of that empire the Lord himself shall be sovereign ruler. (Obadiah 1, 21)
Crossed, yonder straits, the sea’s wave checked, depths of the river disappointed of their prey! Assyria’s pride brought low, empire of Egypt cut down! (Zechariah 10, 11)
