Daniel 5:6
5:6 Then all the color drained from the king’s face 1 and he became alarmed. 2 The joints of his hips gave way, 3 and his knees began knocking together.
Daniel 5:28-30
5:28 As for peres 4 – your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
5:29 Then, on Belshazzar’s orders, 5 Daniel was clothed in purple, a golden collar was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed third ruler in the kingdom.
5:30 And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, 6 was killed. 7
1 tn Aram “[the king’s] brightness changed for him.”
2 tn Aram “his thoughts were alarming him.”
3 tn Aram “his loins went slack.”
4 sn Peres (פְּרֵס) is the singular form of פַרְסִין (pharsin) in v. 25.
5 tn Aram “Belshazzar spoke.”
6 tn Aram “king of the Chaldeans.”
7 sn The year was 539 B.C. At this time Daniel would have been approximately eighty-one years old. The relevant extra-biblical records describing the fall of Babylon include portions of Herodotus, Xenophon, Berossus (cited in Josephus), the Cyrus Cylinder, and the Babylonian Chronicle.