Daniel 9:1

Darius i.e. -Darius the Mede," Daniel 5:31: cf. Daniel 6:1 ff. The date is fixed suitably: the first year after the conquest of Babylon would be a time when, in view of the promises of Jeremiah and the second Isaiah (e.g. Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:13), thoughts of restoration would naturally be stirring in the minds of the Jewish exiles.

the son of Ahasuerus Ahasuerus, properly "Ǎchashwçrôsh, also in Ezra 4:6, and Esther, passimis the Hebrew form of the Persian Khshayârshâ, the Greek Xerxes, called in contemporary Aramaic Chshiarsh(חשׁיארשׁ) [331]. Cf. p. liv, and on Daniel 5:31.

[331] See the writer's Introduction, p. 512 (Exodus 6, p. 546), note.

of the seed of the Medes See Daniel 5:31. For the expression cf. Esther 6:13.

was made king See on Daniel 5:31, -received the kingdom."