Daniel 5:28 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised “Peres” , means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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.” |
This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: The Lord, the God of the heavens, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build him a temple at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up, and may the Lord his God be with him.
Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them, who cannot be bought off with silver and who have no desire for gold.
A troubling vision is declared to me: ‘The treacherous one acts treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning.’
But disaster will happen to you; you will not know how to avert it. And it will fall on you, but you will be unable to ward it off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
I will bring on that land all my words I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book that Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
Set apart the nations for battle against her – the kings of Media, her governors and all her officials, and all the lands they rule.
The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its stomach and thighs were bronze,
‘After you, there will arise another kingdom, inferior to yours, and then another, a third kingdom, of bronze, which will rule the whole earth.
So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Therefore, Your Majesty, establish the edict and sign the document so that, as a law of the Medes and Persians, it is irrevocable and cannot be changed.’
The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.
In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, a Mede by birth, who was made king over the Chaldean kingdom #– #
Parthians, Medes, Elamites; those who live in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,