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Darius, the Medes, took over the kingdom. He was then 62 years old. [Cyrus had begun his military campaign against Babylon in early October 539 BC when he won the battle of Opis, 80 km north of Babylon. On October 11, he advanced another 20 km and captured Sippar. The Euphrates River flows straight through Babylon. By digging several canals to a depression just north of Babylon, the water level of the Euphrates was reduced enough for the army to get under the wall. Just before dawn on October 13, the Persian army marched into Babylon. The Greek historian Herodotus describes how a religious festival was being celebrated and the people were busy dancing and celebrating at dawn when the Persian army captured the city. Had they been on their guard, it would have been easy to defend the city from the walls surrounding the river. Cyrus himself arrived in the city 17 days later and was proclaimed its liberator. Jeremiah had previously prophesied that the Babylonians would rule for 70 years, see Jer 25:12. Interestingly, it was in 609 BC that Nebuchadnezzar's father Nabopolassar burned the last Assyrian stronghold in Harran. A few years earlier, he had plundered and burned the Assyrian capital Nineveh, and the survivors had fled to Harran. He besieged the city for several years until it fell in 609 BC. There are thus exactly 70 years between 609 BC (when the Babylonians became world rulers) and 539 BC, when they lost power to the Medes and Persians.]
