And Daniel continued [even] unto the first year of king Cyrus.
Ver. 21. And Daniel continued, &c.] And afterwards also, though shrewdly lifted at under Darius; Dan 6:4 and in the third year of Cyrus he was overborne by the counsellors hired to hinder the building of the temple, whom he could not withstand, and therefore kept an extraordinary fast. Ezr 4:5 Dan 10:3-4