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Daniel 5:28

Judgment

26 And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

27 TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain around his neck, and proclaimed him the third highest ruler in the kingdom.

30 That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
KJV
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
WEB
PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
ASV
PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
DARBY
PERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
BLB
Peres—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Mede and Persian!”
ÅB
Peres: Delt er ditt kongedømme og gitt til mederne og perserne.
OTB
Peres: Ditt rike er delt og gitt til mederne og perserne.
B1930
Peres: Delt er ditt kongedømme og gitt til mederne og perserne.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Isaiah 13:17

    Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.

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  • Daniel 6:28

    So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

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  • Isaiah 21:2

    A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”

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  • Daniel 5:31

    and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.

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  • Isaiah 45:1–2

    This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:

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  • Daniel 9:1

    In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes, a Mede by descent, who was made ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans —

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  • Daniel 8:20

    The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.

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  • Daniel 8:3–4

    Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a ram with two horns standing beside the canal. The horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one grew up later.

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