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Daniel 5:28
Daniel 5:28 is verse 28 of Daniel chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia.
King James Version
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
World English Bible
PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
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Daniel 5:26–30 · Berean Standard Bible
26 And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
27 TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
28 PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain around his neck, and proclaimed him the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
30 That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Daniel 5:31and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
Daniel 6:28So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Daniel 8:3Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a ram with two horns standing beside the canal. The horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one grew up later.
Daniel 8:4I saw the ram charging toward the west and the north and the south. No animal could stand against him, and there was no deliverance from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.
Daniel 8:20The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.
Daniel 9:1In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes, a Mede by descent, who was made ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans —
Isaiah 13:17Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
Isaiah 21:2A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
Isaiah 45:1This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:
Isaiah 45:2“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.