PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
Parallel translations
- WEB PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
- KJV PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given 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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Quick answer
PERES means the kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians. Babylon's dominion is about to pass to another empire.
Overview
Daniel interprets the final word as the transfer of the kingdom to the Medo-Persian power, fulfilling God's sovereign plan over the nations. This both judges Belshazzar and advances the larger prophetic outline of empires found throughout Daniel. History unfolds exactly as the God who rules over kingdoms has decreed.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Isa 13:17Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
- Dan 6:28So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
- Isa 21:2A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
- Dan 5:31and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
- Isa 45:1–2This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:
- Dan 8:20The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.
- Dan 9:1In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes, a Mede by descent, who was made ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans—
- Dan 8:3–4Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a ram with two horns standing beside the canal. The horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one grew up later.
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