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    Darius

    דָּֽרְיָ֫וֶשׁ

    Darius, king of Persia, issued a decree allowing the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem.

    verses
    16
    first named
    Ezra 4:5
    last named
    Zechariah 7:1
    period
    Exile and Return
    tribe
    Persia

    Description

    Who was Darius?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Darius, mentioned in the books of Ezra, Haggai, and Zechariah, was a king of Persia who played a significant role in the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile. He is often referred to as Darius I, also known as Darius the Great, who ruled the Persian Empire from 522 to 486 BC.

    During the early years of Darius' reign, the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem had been halted due to opposition from the neighboring peoples (Ezr.4.5). However, in the second year of Darius' reign, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah began to prophesy to the Jews, encouraging them to resume the Temple construction (Hag.1.1, 15; Zec.1.1, 7).

    When the Persian officials questioned the Jews' authority to rebuild the Temple, they appealed to the decree issued by Cyrus years earlier (Ezr.5.5-7). Darius then ordered a search of the archives, and Cyrus' decree was found (Ezr.6.1). Darius issued a new decree, confirming Cyrus' original order and providing support for the Temple's reconstruction (Ezr.6.12-14).

    With Darius' backing, the Jews completed the Temple reconstruction in the sixth year of his reign (Ezr.6.15). This event was a significant milestone in the restoration of Jewish worship in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile.

    The mention of Darius in these biblical books demonstrates the Persian Empire's role in the history of Israel and the fulfillment of God's plan for His people.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Darius 10 of 13 entities the graph connects to Darius, in 2 groups: kinship 1, events 9. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.AhasuerusFather of · 30 versesKinshipLORD4 events · 1,004 versesWord2 events · 225 versesZerubbabel1 event · 27 versesJoshua1 event · 21 versesCyrus2 events · 19 versesArtaxerxes1 event · 14 versesHaggai2 events · 11 versesZechariah2 events · 6 versesShethar-bozenai1 event · 4 versesEventsDarius

    The 10 best-attested of 13 are drawn. All 13 are listed below.

    Father of

    Stands in the same events as

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Darius happens The one place the claims about Darius reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Persia. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Darius there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Persia
    Exile and ReturnThe one place the claims about Darius reach

    The pattern

    Where Darius is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 16 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSEZRA10 VERSESHAGGAI–ZECHARIAH6 VERSES21 books and 496 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 16 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSEZRA10 VERSESHAGGAI–ZECHARIAH6 VERSES21 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Darius is named in 16 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 63 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 16, across 3 books.

    1. Ezra10 verses

      4:54:245:55:65:76:16:126:136:146:15

    2. Haggai3 verses

      1:11:152:10

    3. Zechariah3 verses

      1:11:77:1

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via AhasuerusArtaxerxesPersian king during Ezra and Nehemiah's timevia AhasuerusDariusMede who became Emperor over Babylonvia AhasuerusVashtiQueen of Persia, deposed by King Ahasuerus (Xerxes)
    ElsewhereGenealogy of DariusEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on