Daniel 6:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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It pleased Darius, when he had fully taken over the government of the kingdom, to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, called satraps in secular history, which should be over the whole kingdom, as governors of the smaller sections, or provinces, into which the empire was divided,

Daniel 6:1

1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;