PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Parallel translations
- KJV PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
- BSB PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
- ESV PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
- NKJV PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
- NASB ‘Perēs’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
- NLT Parsin means ‘divided’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
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- Isa 13:17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
- Dan 6:28So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
- Isa 21:2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
- Dan 5:31Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
- Isa 45:1–2Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
- Dan 8:20The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.
- Dan 9:1In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,
- Dan 8:3–4Then I lifted up my 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.
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