Daniel 5:28
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Daniel 5:28 in other translations
| BSB | PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.” |
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| WEB | PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.” |
| ASV | PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. |
| YLT | Divided--Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given to the Medes and Persians.' |
| DARBY | PERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. |
| BBE | Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians. |
| Webster | PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. |
What does Daniel 5:28 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Daniel 5:18-31
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…
Daniel 5:28 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Daniel 5:28
- Isaiah 13:17
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
- Daniel 6:28
So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
- Isaiah 21:2
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
- Daniel 5:31
And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
- Isaiah 45:1-2
Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
- Daniel 9:1
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
- Daniel 8:20
The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.
- Daniel 8:3-4
Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.
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Context
- Daniel 5:27
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
- Daniel 5:28
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
- Daniel 5:29
Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Daniel 5:28 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | PERES: Tu reino fué rompido, y es dado á Medos y Persas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Pérès: Ton royaume est divisé, et donné aux Mèdes et aux Perses. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Peres -dein Königreich wird zerteilt und den Medern und Persern gegeben. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Phares: divisum est regnum tuum, et datum est Medis, et Persis. |