Daniel 5:28

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“PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.””

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BSBPD

“PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Divided--Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given to the Medes and Persians.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Daniel 5:28 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Chronicles 36:23“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you belongs to His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up.’”
  2. Isaiah 13:17Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
  3. 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.”
  4. 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:
  5. Isaiah 47:11But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
  6. Jeremiah 25:13I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
  7. Jeremiah 51:28Prepare the nations for battle against her— the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.
  8. Daniel 2:32The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its belly and thighs were bronze,
  9. Daniel 2:39But after you, there will arise another kingdom, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule the whole earth.
  10. Daniel 5:31and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
  11. Daniel 6:28So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
  12. 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.
  13. Daniel 8:20The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.
  14. 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—

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