Daniel 5:28
Good News Translation
divisions, your kingdom is divided up and given to the Medes and Persians."

New Revised Standard Version
peres , your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

New American Bible
, your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians.

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PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians.

PERES.

Thy.

Daniel 5:31 And Darius, the Mede, succeeded to the kingdom, being threescore and two years old.

Daniel 6:28 Now Daniel continued unto the reign of Darius, and the reign of Cyrus, the Persian.

Daniel 8:3,4,20 And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold a ram stood before the water, having two high horns, and one higher than the other, and growing up. Afterward . . .

Daniel 9:1 In the first year of Darius, the son of Assuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:

Isaiah 13:17 Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:

Isaiah 21:2 A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.

Isaiah 45:1,2 Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs of kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut. . . .

Context
Daniel Interprets the Handwriting
27THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting. 28PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians.29Then by the king's command, Daniel was clothed with purple, and a chain of gold was put about his neck: and it was proclaimed of him that he had power as the third man in the kingdom.…
Cross References
Acts 2:9
Parthians and Medes and Elamites and inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

Isaiah 13:17
Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:

Isaiah 21:2
A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.

Isaiah 45:1
Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs of kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut.

Isaiah 45:2
I will go before thee, and will humble the great ones of the earth: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and will burst the bars of iron.

Daniel 5:31
And Darius, the Mede, succeeded to the kingdom, being threescore and two years old.

Daniel 6:8
Now, therefore, O king, confirm the sentence, and sign the decree: that what is decreed by the Medes and Persians may not be altered, nor any man be allowed to transgress it.

Daniel 6:28
Now Daniel continued unto the reign of Darius, and the reign of Cyrus, the Persian.

Daniel 5:27
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