Christian Standard Bible
Daniel 5:28
28‘Peres’ means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
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
26This is the interpretation of the message: ‘Mene’ means that God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end. 27‘Tekel’ means that you have been weighed on the balance and found deficient. ‘Peres’ means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.” 29Then Belshazzar gave an order, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain around his neck, and issued a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. 30That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,
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פְּרֵ֑ס פְּרִיסַת֙ מַלְכוּתָ֔ךְ וִיהִיבַ֖ת לְמָדַ֥י וּפָרָֽס׃Read the interlinear
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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 8:3I looked up, and there was a ram standing beside the canal. He had two horns. The two horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one came up last.
- Daniel 9:1In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, a Mede by birth, who was made king over the Chaldean kingdom —
- Isaiah 13:17Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them, who cannot be bought off with silver and who have no desire for gold.
- Isaiah 21:2A troubling vision is declared to me: “The treacherous one acts treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning.”
- Isaiah 45:1The Lord says this to Cyrus, his anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him and disarm kings, to open doors before him, and even city 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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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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