Daniel 5:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.

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  • Isa 13:17 : 17 See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.
  • Dan 6:28 : 28 He gives salvation and makes men free from danger, and does signs and wonders in heaven and earth, who has kept Daniel safe from the power of the lions.
  • Isa 21:2 : 2 A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.
  • Isa 45:1-2 : 1 The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut; 2 I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:
  • 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 kingdom of the Chaldaeans;
  • Dan 8:3-4 : 3 And lifting up my eyes, I saw, there before the stream, a male sheep with two horns: and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, the higher one coming up last. 4 I saw the sheep pushing to the west and to the north and to the south; and no beasts were able to keep their place before him, and no one was able to get people out of his power; but he did whatever his pleasure was and made himself great.
  • Dan 8:20 : 20 The sheep which you saw with two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

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    23But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;

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

    25And this is the writing which was recorded, Mene, tekel, peres.

    26This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended.

    27Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.

  • Dan 5:29-30
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    29Then, by the order of Belshazzar, they put a purple robe on Daniel, and a gold chain round his neck, and a public statement was made that he was to be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.

    30That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.

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    31While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: The kingdom has gone from you:

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    5In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing.

    6Then the colour went from the king's face, and he was troubled by his thoughts; strength went from his body, and his knees were shaking.

    7The king, crying out with a loud voice, said that the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs, were to be sent for. The king made answer and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever is able to make out this writing, and make clear to me the sense of it, will be clothed in purple and have a chain of gold round his neck, and will be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.

    8Then all the king's wise men came in: but they were not able to make out the writing or give the sense of it to the king.

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    2And now I will make clear to you what is true. There are still three kings to come in Persia, and the fourth will have much greater wealth than all of them: and when he has become strong through his wealth, he will put his forces in motion against all the kingdoms of Greece.

    3And a strong king will come to power, ruling with great authority and doing whatever is his pleasure.

    4And when he has become strong, his kingdom will be broken and parted to the four winds of heaven; but not to his offspring, for it will be uprooted; and his kingdom will be for the others and not for these: but not with the same authority as his.

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    39And after you another kingdom, lower than you, will come to power; and a third kingdom, of brass, ruling over all the earth.

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    28All this came to King Nebuchadnezzar.

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    8All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole.

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