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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
After a reign of seven years, Cyrus left the

kingdom to his son, Cambyses, called

Ahasuerus in Ezra 4:6, who reigned seven

years and five months, to B. C. 522. Eight

monarchs whose reigns varied from seven

months to forty-six years each, took the

throne in order till the year B. C. 336, as

follows: Smerdis the Magian, called

Artaxerxes in Ezra 4:7, seven months, in the

year B. C. 522; Darius Hystaspes, from B. C.

521 to 486; Xerxes, from B. C. 485 to 465;

Artaxerxes Longimanus, from B. C. 464 to 424;

Darius Nothus, from B. C. 423 to 405;

Artaxerxes Memnon, from B. C. 404 to 359;

Ochus, from B. C. 358 to 338; Arses, from B. C.

337 to 336. The year 335 is set down as the

first of Darius Codomannus, the last of the line

of the old Persian kings. This man, according

to Prideaux, was of noble stature, of goodly