1 Esdras 3:2-4

Common English Bible

² and all the chief administrators, generals, and district governors who were under him in the one hundred twenty-seven administrative districts from India to Ethiopia. ³ They ate and drank, and they left after they had enough. King Darius retired to his bedroom and went to sleep, but he eventually woke up again.

⁴ Then the three young men, the bodyguards who protected the king, said to each other: