date. Newell thinks it is 538 B.C.; Culber places it at 536 B.C. I think either date would fit into the background. This man conquered Babylon in 538 B.C. In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the numbers of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem [Dan. 9:2]. This is in the first year of the reign of Darius. Daniel has now seen a new great world empire come into position, and