Daniel 5:28
Divided — Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given to the Medes and Persians.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
In Context
27Weighed — Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:23'Thus said Cyrus king of Persia, All kingdoms of the earth hath Jehovah, God of the heavens, given to me, and He hath laid a charge on me to build to Him a house in Jerusalem, that [is] in Judah; who is among you of all His people? Jehovah his God [is] with him, and he doth go up.'
Isaiah 21:2A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I have caused to cease.
Isaiah 47:11And come in on thee hath evil, Thou knowest not its rising, And fall on thee doth mischief, Thou art not able to pacify it, And come on thee suddenly doth desolation, Thou knowest not.
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 thee doth rise up another kingdom lower than those, and another third kingdom of brass, that doth rule overall the earth.
Daniel 6:28And this Daniel hath 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 →