Who was the orphan made king in the Bible?

Answer 1

You may be thinking of Cyrus the Great (also known as Cyrus II of Persia and Cyrus the Elder), founder of the Persian Empire. After becoming king, he conquered the Medes and unified the two kingdoms. He is known as the 'Father of Iran.' Cyrus conquered most of Southwest Asia, much of Central Asia, and much of the region bordering the powerful Empire of India, creating the largest empire the world had yet seen. In the Book of Daniel, the Babylonian king has a dream of a giant metallic statue, which is interpreted as symbolic of his and the four most significant empires to come. The head and neck of gold represents Babylonia; the Medo-Persian Empire is represented as the breast and arms of silver; the bronze belly and thighs are Greece; the legs of iron, the ancient Roman Empire. Many commentators of the Scriptures interpret the feet of mixed iron and baked clay as representing either the Holy Roman Empire or a modern-day 'revived Roman Empire.'