Daniel 5:28
PERES; Your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Updated King James Version
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 lacking.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:23Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has the LORD God of heaven given me; and he has charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
Isaiah 21:2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the spoiler spoils. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
Isaiah 47:11Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from whence it rises: and mischief shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know.
Jeremiah 51:28Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
Daniel 2:39And after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear 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 →