Daniel 5:28
P'ress; Thy kingdom hath been divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
In Context
27T'kel, Thou least been weighed in the balances, and been found wanting.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:23Thus hath said Cyrus the king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord the God of heaven given me, and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up.
Isaiah 21:2A hard vision hath been told unto me; the traitor dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. “Go up, O 'Elam; besiege, O Media;” all sighing have I caused to cease.
Isaiah 47:11And there shall come upon thee an evil, which thou shalt not know how to remove it by prayer; and there shall fall upon thee mischief, which thou shalt not be able to atone for; and there shall come upon thee suddenly desolation, which thou shalt not know.
Jeremiah 51:28Make ready against her the nations with the kings of Media, its governors, and all its rulers, and all the land of their dominion.
Daniel 2:39And after thee there will arise another kingdom inferior to thee; and another third kingdom of copper, which will bear rule over all the earth.
Daniel 6:28(6:29) So 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 →