Daniel 9:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldaeans;

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Referenced Verses

  • Dan 11:1 : 1 And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede I was on his side to make his position safe and make him strong.
  • Dan 1:21 : 21 And Daniel went on till the first year of King Cyrus.
  • -6:1 : 1 And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being then about sixty-two years old.
  • Dan 6:28 : 28 He gives salvation and makes men free from danger, and does signs and wonders in heaven and earth, who has kept Daniel safe from the power of the lions.

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  • Dan 9:2
    82%

    2In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years.

  • Dan 11:1
    79%

    1And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede I was on his side to make his position safe and make him strong.

  • Dan 10:1
    78%

    1In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a secret was unfolded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a hard work: and he had knowledge of it, and the vision was clear to him.

  • Dan 8:1
    78%

    1In the third year of the rule of Belshazzar the king, a vision was seen by me, Daniel, after the one I saw at first.

  • Dan 1:21
    78%

    21And Daniel went on till the first year of King Cyrus.

  • Ezra 1:1-2
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    1Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the word of the Lord given by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, so that he made a public statement through all his kingdom, and put it in writing, saying,

    2These are the words of Cyrus, king of Persia: The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

  • Dan 1:1-3
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    77%

    1In the third year of the rule of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, shutting it in with his forces.

    2And the Lord gave into his hands Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he took them away into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he put the vessels into the store-house of his god.

    3And the king gave orders to Ashpenaz, the captain of his unsexed servants, to take in some of the children of Israel, certain of the king's family, and those of high birth;

  • Dan 7:1
    76%

    1In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream, and visions came into his head on his bed: then he put the dream in writing.

  • Ezra 6:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1Then Darius the king gave an order and a search was made in the house of the records, where the things of value were stored up in Babylon.

    2And at Achmetha, in the great house of the king in the land of Media, they came across a roll, in which this statement was put on record:

  • Dan 6:28
    75%

    28He gives salvation and makes men free from danger, and does signs and wonders in heaven and earth, who has kept Daniel safe from the power of the lions.

  • Hag 1:15
    74%

    15On the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

  • Esth 1:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus, (that Ahasuerus who was ruler of a hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom, from India as far as Ethiopia:)

    2That in those days, when King Ahasuerus was ruling in Shushan, his strong town,

    3In the third year of his rule he gave a feast to all his captains and his servants; and the captains of the army of Persia and Media, the great men and the rulers of the divisions of his kingdom, were present before him;

  • Ezra 5:13
    74%

    13But in the first year of Cyrus, king of Babylon, Cyrus the king gave an order for the building of this house of God;

  • 2 Chr 36:22
    73%

    22Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the words which the Lord had said by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, and he made a public statement and had it given out through all his kingdom and put in writing, saying,

  • Ezra 8:1
    73%

    1Now these are the heads of families who were listed of those who went up with me from Babylon, when Artaxerxes was king.

  • Dan 5:13
    73%

    13Then they took Daniel in before the king; the king made answer and said to Daniel, So you are that Daniel, of the prisoners of Judah, whom my father took out of Judah.

  • Dan 6:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being then about sixty-two years old.

    2Darius was pleased to put over the kingdom a hundred and twenty captains, who were to be all through the kingdom;

  • Dan 6:8-9
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    73%

    8All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole.

    9Now, O King, put the order in force, signing the writing so that it may not be changed, like the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.

  • Ezra 1:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7And Cyrus the king got out the vessels of the house of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods;

    8Even these Cyrus made Mithredath, the keeper of his wealth, get out, and he gave them, after numbering them, to Sheshbazzar, the ruler of Judah.

  • Zech 1:1
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    1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

  • Dan 1:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6And among these there were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

    7And the captain of the unsexed servants gave them names; to Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar, to Hananiah the name of Shadrach, to Mishael the name of Meshach, and to Azariah the name of Abed-nego.

  • Dan 1:11
    71%

    11Then Daniel said to the keeper in whose care the captain of the unsexed servants had put Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

  • Dan 1:18
    71%

    18Now at the end of the time fixed by the king for them to go in, the captain of the unsexed servants took them in to Nebuchadnezzar.

  • Jer 25:1
    71%

    1The word which came to Jeremiah about all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah; this was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.

  • Dan 2:1
    71%

    1In the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him.

  • Zech 7:1
    71%

    1And it came about in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month Chislev.

  • Esth 9:1
    70%

    1Now on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, when the time came for the king's order to be put into effect, on the very day when the haters of the Jews had been hoping to have rule over them; though the opposite had come about, and the Jews had rule over their haters;

  • Esth 1:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13And the king said to the wise men, who had knowledge of the times, (for this was the king's way with all who were expert in law and in the giving of decisions:

    14And second only to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven rulers of Persia and Media, who were friends of the king, and had the first places in the kingdom:)

  • Neh 1:1
    70%

    1The history of Nehemiah, the son of Hacaliah. Now it came about, in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, when I was in Shushan, the king's town,

  • Dan 5:28
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    28Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.

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    1Now after these things, when Artaxerxes was king of Persia, Ezra, the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

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  • Dan 5:11
    69%

    11There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, light and reason like the wisdom of the gods were seen in him: and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him master of the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs;

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    15And the building of this house was complete on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of Darius the king.

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    6And in the time of Ahasuerus, when he first became king, they put on record a statement against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Jer 1:3
    68%

    3And it came again in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, up to the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; till Jerusalem was taken away in the fifth month.