PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Daniel 5:28 in context
Daniel 5:25–31
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“This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’
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“This is the interpretation of the thing:
MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end.
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TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
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PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
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Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
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In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
31
Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
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