Daniel 5:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 peres: your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition peres, Your kingdom and your kingship are divided and given to the Medes and Persians. [Foretold in Isa. 21:2, 5, 9.] American Standard Version (1901) PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. Common English Bible peres means your kingship is divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.” Catholic Public Domain Version PHARES: your kingdom has been divided and has been given to the Medes and the Persians. English Standard Version 2016 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.” |
“Thus says King Cyrus of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Let any of those among you who are of his people—may the Lord their God be with them!—go up.”
See, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.
A stern vision is told to me; the betrayer betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.
But evil shall come upon you, which you cannot charm away; disaster shall fall upon you, which you will not be able to ward off, and ruin shall come on you suddenly, of which you know nothing.
I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book that Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.
The head of that statue was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its midsection and thighs of bronze,
After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours and yet a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over the whole earth.
And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Now, O king, establish the interdict and sign the document, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked.”
As for the ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia.
In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, by birth a Mede, who became king over the realm of the Chaldeans,
Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,