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What does Daniel 5:31 mean? Read commentary on this popular Bible verse and understand the real meaning behind God's Word using John Gill's Exposition of the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 23:1. “No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.” Explanation: God’s law did not allow for the perverted practices of creating Eunuchs by destroying their masculinity like the pagans did.
- Ecclesiastes 1:18. “For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.” Explanation: This refers to worldly knowledge (under the sun).
- Matthew 24:15. “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand).”
- Proverbs 31:6. “Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress.” Explanation: During the reign of King Solomon, strong drinks and wine were given to condemned criminals who were about to be executed, to lessen their pain and suffering.
This Darius was not Darius the Persian, under whom the temple was built, as Porphyrius would have it, that thereby he might persuade unlearned men that Daniel lived long after the time that he did live in. Therefore this is called Darius the Mede, and by the Greeks called Cyaxares.
EXCURSUS D: DARIUS THE MEDE (Daniel 5:31). It appears from the account given by Daniel that Darius the Mede was the sovereign appointed to rule over Babylonia after the death of Belshazzar. Cyrus, after the capture of Babylon, appointed a man named Gubaru (Gobryas) as his governor at Babylon.
Cyaxares was a brave and energetic, but violent and cruel prince, and died B.C. 594, after a reign of 44 years, leaving the throne to Astyages, (Herod. 1:73, 74,103- 106; 4:11, 12; 7:20). — Smith, Dict. of Class.
Nov 9, 2019 · Identifying Darius the Mede as Cyaxares II has been most recently (and most thoroughly) proposed by Steven Anderson in his 2014 dissertation. However, this viewpoint is not new, and was the standard Jewish and Christian interpretation from Josephus and Jerome, until the 1870s.
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Verses 1-3. - It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes. which should be over the whole kingdom; and over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.
