Confirm Darius Encouragement Mede Position Protect Protection Safe Stand Standing Stood Strengthen Strengthener Strong Stronghold Support Supporter
11:1 Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, [even] I, {a} stood to confirm and to strengthen him.
(a) The angel assures Daniel that God has given him power to perform these things, seeing that he appointed him to assist Darius when he overcame the Chaldeans.
11:1-30 The angel shows Daniel the succession of the Persian and Grecian empires. The kings of Egypt and Syria are noticed: Judea was between their dominions, and affected by their contests. From ver. 5-30, is generally considered to relate to the events which came to pass during the continuance of these governments; and from ver. 21, to relate to Antiochus Epiphanes, who was a cruel and violent persecutor of the Jews. See what decaying, perishing things worldly pomp and possessions are, and the power by which they are gotten. God, in his providence, sets up one, and pulls down another, as he pleases. This world is full of wars and fightings, which come from men's lusts. All changes and revolutions of states and kingdoms, and every event, are plainly and perfectly foreseen by God. No word of God shall fall to the ground; but what he has designed, what he has declared, shall infallibly come to pass. While the potsherds of the earth strive with each other, they prevail and are prevailed against, deceive and are deceived; but those who know God will trust in him, and he will enable them to stand their ground, bear their cross, and maintain their conflict.
Confirm Darius Encouragement First Mede Position Protect Protection Safe Side Stand Standing Stood Strengthen Strong Stronghold Support Supporter
Confirm Darius Encouragement First Mede Position Protect Protection Safe Side Stand Standing Stood Strengthen Strong Stronghold Support Supporter
