‘Perēs’—your kingdom has been divided and given 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.
- BSB PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
- NKJV PERES: 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.
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Cross-references · 8
- 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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