Cyrus was now reduced to great perplexity, as time went on and he made no progress against the place. In this distress either some one made the suggestion to him, or he bethought himself of a plan, which he proceeded to put in execution. He placed a portion of his army at the point where the river enters the city, and another body at the back of the place where it issues forth, with orders to march into the town by the bed of the stream, as soon as the water became shallow en

Herodotus may be giving an extra biblical confirmation of the golden statue made by Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel chapter 3.

Assyria possesses a vast number of great cities, whereof the most renowned and strongest at this time was Babylon, whither, after the fall of Nineveh, the seat of government had been removed. The following is a description of the place: The city stands on a broad plain, and is an exact square, a hundred and twenty furlongs in length each way, so that the entire circuit is four hundred and eighty furlongs. While such is its size, in magnificence there is no other city that app

The following story took place in Babylon, not long after Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were rescued from the fire. The response of Cyrus makes it appear he knew this story. The fact that he knew Daniel makes it plausible:

4. Josephus throughout his histories makes much of the Book of Daniel. The Jewish historian was a contemporary of Paul and John. In about A.D. 80 Josephus wrote the story of his people from Abraham down to the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. One of the most moving and beautiful narratives in all literature is his story of the sparing of the holy city by Alexander the Great during the latter’s conquest of the Persian Empire. It is recounted in his Antiquities of the Jews,

2. Then the archaeologists began to dig into the ruins of the Mesopotamian Valley. Oh, what a spade has done to Daniel! Great numbers of clay tablets and other ancient inscriptions were excavated among the ruins of the city along the Euphrates River and sent to the British Museum. There learned Assyriologists began to study them. Their published announcements and discoveries were amazing.

Eusebius uses Daniel 9 and the prophecy of the Seventy Sevens as a proof for Christ:

…the Chaldaeans apply themselves to astronomy and forecasting the future; while the Magi spend their time in the worship of the gods, in sacrifices and in prayers, implying that none but themselves have the ear of the gods. They propound their views concerning the being and origin of the gods, whom they hold to be fire, earth, and water; they condemn the use of images, and especially the error of attributing to the divinities difference of sex. They hold discourse of justice,