Darius I the Great

Apart from "Darius the Mede, "Darius (i.e., "Darius I, the Great) is mentioned 17x (over the same number of verses) in the OT.

(All citations are from the NIV)

Ezr 4:5 — "They bribed officials to work against them and frustrate their plans during the entire reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia."

Ezr 4:24 — "Thus the work on the house of God in Jerusalem came to a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia."

Ezr 5:5 — "But the eye of their God was watching over the elders of the Jews, and they were not stopped until a report could go to Darius and his written reply be received."

Ezr 5:6 — "This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates, the officials of Trans-Euphrates, sent to King Darius."

Ezr 5:7 — "The report they sent him read as follows: To King Darius: Cordial greetings."

Ezr 6:1 — "King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives stored in the treasury at Babylon."

Ezr 6:12 — "May God, who has caused his Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to change this decree or to destroy this temple in Jerusalem. I Darius have decreed it. Let it be carried out with diligence."

Ezr 6:13 — "Then, because of the decree King Darius had sent, Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates carried it out with diligence."

Ezr 6:14 — "So the elders of the Jews continued to build and prosper under the preaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, a descendant of Iddo. They finished building the temple according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia."

Ezr 6:15 — "The temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius."

Neh 12:22 — "The family heads of the Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan and Jaddua, as well as those of the priests, were recorded in the reign of Darius the Persian."

Hag 1:1 — "In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest:"

Hag 1:15 — on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month. In the second year of King Darius, [on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai: . . .]

Hag 2:10 — "On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Haggai: . . ."

Zec 1:1 — "In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo: . . ."

Zec 1:7 — "On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo.""

Zec 7:1 — "In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev."