accident and this smertes was a mead and he wasn't sympathetic to the work of the Jews and depending on which historian you look at seven or eight months later he was dead and this third king comes up Darius and Darius is not Darius the mead that this chapter opens with this is a Persian and he once again is sympathetic also to the needs of the Jews to return to Jerusalem and he's puts forth the second of the three decrees that allow the 2300 a prophecy to begin that allow the Jews to have full autonomy in their country and after him it says there would be a fourth king that was far richer and this fourth king Xerxes he is wealthy but he puts together a great army and he decides that he's going to attack Greece and he is frustrated in his plans but the verse says that he's the one that stirs up the realm of Greece and begins the Greeks in their preparation to ultimately come sweep away the kingdom of the Medes and Persians now there there was a nine other kings that followed in the history of the Medes and Persians but only these are mentioned in this verse because they're the they're the points of reference that the prophetic record wants to give us the king that did follow Xerxes was the the king that ultimately gives the third and final decree art of Xerxes the son of Xerxes and if we had time and I'm just going to briefly refute refer you to it if you look at these these kings in the Bible record they have the their Hebrew names and they have their Persian names and these kings that were writing the decrees Cambius is the Azerus of Ezra for Darius the the the king that was third in line after Cyrus Cyrus he's the art of Xerxes of Ezra for and then of course art of Xerxes the son of Xerxes is the Xerxes pardon me the the king that was much richer and stirs up the realm of Greece against the Medes and Persians is the Azarius of Esther my point being that every one of these kings except for possibly Smyrtas the biblical record shows a direct connection between them and the work of bringing the Jews back to Israel they were being influenced by Gabriel no doubt and other angels to accomplish this work point being that one of the things