Daniel 5:28
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
KJV Cambridge Paragraph
In The King James Version
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
In Context
27TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:23Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up.
Isaiah 21:2A grievous vision is declared unto me; 1 The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. 1 Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; 1 All the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 1
Isaiah 47:11Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: 1 And mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: 1 And desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. 1
Jeremiah 51:28Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, 1 The captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, 1 And all the land of his dominion. 1
Daniel 2:39And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
Daniel 6:28So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:11-30
Daniel Brought before Belshazzar. ( b. c. 538.) 10 Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: 11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy… Read the whole commentary →