Daniel 5:28
Divided—Your kingdom is divided, and it has been given to the Medes and Persians.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
In Context
27Weighed—You are weighed in the balances, and have been found lacking.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:23“Thus said Cyrus king of Persia: YHWH, God of the heavens, has given all kingdoms of the earth to me, and He has laid a charge on me to build a house for Him in Jerusalem which [is] in Judah; who is among you of all His people? His God YHWH [is] with him, and he goes up!”
Isaiah 21:2A hard vision has been declared to me, || The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, || And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, || I have caused all its sighing to cease.
Isaiah 47:11And evil has come in on you, || You do not know its rising, || And disaster falls on you, || You are not able to pacify it, || And desolation comes on you suddenly, || You do not know.
Jeremiah 51:28Sanctify against it the nations with the kings of Media, || Its governors and all its prefects, || And all the land of its dominion.
Daniel 2:39And after you another kingdom arises lower than those, and another third kingdom of bronze, that rules over all the earth.
Daniel 6:28And this Daniel has 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 →