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Daniel 5:28
Daniel 5:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
- New International Version (NIV)Peres : Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."
- New King James Version (NKJV)PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
Context of Daniel 5:28
26And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end. 27TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient. PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.” 29Then 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. 30That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
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פְּרֵ֑ס פְּרִיסַת֙ מַלְכוּתָ֔ךְ וִיהִיבַ֖ת לְמָדַ֥י וּפָרָֽס׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Daniel 5:28
- 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 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:
Commentaries on Daniel 5:28
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-31Verses 18-31 Daniel reads Belshazzar's doom. He had not taken warning by the judgments upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he had insulted God. Sinners are pleased with gods that neither see, nor hear, nor know; but they will be judged by One to whom all things are open. Daniel reads the sentence written on the wall. All this may well be applied to the doom of every sinner. At death, the sinner's days are numbered and finished; after death is the judgment, when he…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 28PERES means that your kingdom has been divided: God would divide the Babylonian Empire and give it to two peoples, the Medes and the Persians.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2828. Peres--the explanation of "dividers" (Da 5:25), the active participle plural there being used for the passive participle singular, "dividers" for "divided." The word "Peres" alludes to the similar word "Persia." divided--namely, among the Medes and Persians [Maurer]; or, "severed" from thee [Grotius].Read the comment
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Notes
- 1. Daniel 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia. ↩
Commentaries on Daniel 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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