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Daniel 5:28

Judgment

26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans 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)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 13:17

    Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

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  • Daniel 6:28

    So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

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  • Isaiah 21:2

    A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

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  • Daniel 5:31

    And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

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  • Isaiah 45:1–2

    Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

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  • Daniel 9:1

    In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

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  • Daniel 8:20

    The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.

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  • Daniel 8:3–4

    Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.

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