Daniel 5:28
peres; Thy malchut is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 Koresh Melech Paras (Persia), Kol Mamlechot HaAretz (all the kingdoms of the earth) hath Hashem Elohei HaShomayim given me; and He hath charged me to build Him a Beis in Yerushalayim, which is in Yehudah. Who is there among you of all His people? Hashem Elohav be with him and let him go up! + 36:23 The glory cloud that appears at the dedication of both the wilderness Mishkan and the Beis HaMikdash of Sh'lomo HaMelech is a prophetic type and foreshadow of the Moshiach and the coming sod hitgashmut — see 2Chr 5:7-14; Ex 40:34-35; Yn 1:1,14
Isaiah 21:2A chazut kashah (harsh vision) is declared unto me; 1 the boged (traitor) dealeth treacherously, and the shoded (destroyer) destroyeth. 1 Go up, O Eilam; besiege, O Media; 1 all the groaning she + 21:2 Babylon caused have I made to cease. 1
Isaiah 47:11Therefore shall ra'ah come upon thee; 1 thou shalt not know its shachar (dawn, from whence it riseth); 1 and tragedy will befall thee; 1 thou shalt not be able to make kofer (ransom) to ward it off; 1 and sho'ah (catastrophe) shall come upon thee pitom (suddenly), 1 which thou shalt not foresee or know. 1
Jeremiah 51:28Prepare against her the Goyim 1 with the melachim (kings) of the Medes, 1 the pachot (rulers) thereof, and all the seganim (officials) thereof, 1 and all the countries ruled thereof. 1
Daniel 2:39And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of bronze, which shall bear rule over kol ha'aretz.
Daniel 6:28He delivereth and rescueth, 1 and He worketh otot and mofetim 1 in Shomayim and in ha'aretz, 1 Who hath delivered Daniel 1 from the power of the lions.
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 →