Daniel 6:1
It seemed good to Darius, and he appointed over the kingdom a hundred and twenty governors to be over his whole kingdom.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Placuit Dario, et constituit super regnum satrapas centum viginti ut essent in toto regno suo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ ἤρεσεν ἐνώπιον Δαρείου, καὶ κατέστησεν ἐπὶ τῆς βασιλείας σατράπας ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι τοῦ εἶναι αὐτοὺς ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ βασιλείᾳ αὐτοῦ,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Daniel 6:2
- שְׁפַר֙ קֳדָ֣ם דָּרְיָ֔וֶשׁ וַהֲקִים֙ עַל מַלְכוּתָ֔א לַאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּ֖א מְאָ֣ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֑ין דִּ֥י לֶהֱוֺ֖ן בְּכָל מַלְכוּתָֽא
Haydock's commentary
Kingdom. Josephus, &c., say Darius had returned into Media, where he made these regulations. But if this did not take place at Babylon, it would be rather at Susa, chap. viii. Josephus counts 300 or 360 governments, though when the monarchy was increased there were only 127, Esther i. (Calmet)
He may therefore speak here of large towns, which had each a magistrate. Such regulations easily vary. (Haydock)
Darius acts as master of the whole empire.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.