KJV King James Version
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
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Daniel 5:28
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
WEB World English Bible
PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
ASV American Standard Version
PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Divided—Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given to the Medes and Persians.’
Surrounding context — Daniel 5
25 And this [is] the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
26 This [is] the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
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.
30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, [being] about threescore and two years old.
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Isaiah 13:17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it.Daniel 6:28So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.Isaiah 21:2A 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 5:31And Darius the Median took the kingdom, [being] about threescore and two years old.Isaiah 45:1-2Thus 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;Daniel 9:1In 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 8:20The ram which thou sawest having [two] horns [are] the kings of Media and Persia.Daniel 8:3-4Then 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.
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