Daniel 5:28
'Peres,' 'your kingdom is divided and is given to the Medes and Persians.'”
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
In Context
27'Tekel,' 'you are weighed in the scales and are found lacking.'
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:23“This is what Cyrus, king of Persia, says: Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has commanded me to build a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you from all his people, may Yahweh your God, be with you. Let him go up to the land.”
Isaiah 21:2A distressing vision has been given to me: 1 the treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. 1 Go up and attack, Elam; besiege, Media; 1 I will stop all her groaning. 1
Isaiah 47:11Disaster will overcome you; you will not be able to drive it away with your incantations. 1 Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to ward it off. 1 Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you know it. 1
Jeremiah 51:28Prepare the nations to attack her: The kings of the Medes and his governors, 1 all of his officials and all the lands under his rule. 1
Daniel 2:39After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you, and yet a third kingdom of bronze will rule over all the earth.
Daniel 6:28So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and during 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 →