Daniel 5:28

Daniel Deciphers And Interprets The Writing

²⁷ TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; ²⁸ ‘PERĒS’—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.” ²⁹ Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

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Persia

Isaiah 13:17

Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.

Daniel 6:28

So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

Isaiah 21:2

A stern vision is told to me; the traitor betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.

Daniel 5:31

And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

Isaiah 45:1-2

Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:

Daniel 9:1

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a Mede, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans--

Daniel 8:3-4

I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing on the bank of the canal. It had two horns, and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.

Daniel 8:20

As for the ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia.