Daniel 5:28
PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
In Context
27TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:23“Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is amongst you of all his people, the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.’”
Isaiah 21:2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
Isaiah 47:11Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand.
Jeremiah 51:28Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion!
Daniel 2:39“After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you; and another third kingdom of bronze, which will 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 →