Daniel 5:28

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Isa 13:17 : 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
  • Dan 6:28 : 28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
  • Isa 21:2 : 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
  • Dan 5:31 : 31 And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
  • Dan 9:1 : 1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,
  • Isa 45:1-2 : 1 Thus saith Jehovah 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 the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: 2 I will go before thee, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;
  • Dan 8:3-4 : 3 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. 4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; and no beasts could stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself.
  • Dan 8:20 : 20 The ram which thou sawest, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

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    23but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.

    24Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.

    25And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

    26This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end;

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