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Daniel 5:28-31

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5:28 As for peres¹ – your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

5:29 Then, on Belshazzar’s orders,² 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,³ was killed.⁴ 5:31 (6:1)⁵ So Darius the Mede took control of the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old.

¹sn Peres (פְּרֵס) is the singular form of פַרְסִין (pharsin) in v. 25.

²tn Aram “Belshazzar spoke.”

³tn Aram “king of the Chaldeans.”

⁴sn 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.

⁵sn Beginning with 5:31, the verse numbers through 6:28 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Aramaic text (BHS), with 5:31 ET = 6:1 AT, 6:1 ET = 6:2 AT, 6:2 ET = 6:3 AT, 6:3 ET = 6:4 AT, etc., through 6:28 ET = 6:29 AT. Beginning with 7:1 the verse numbers in the English Bible and the Aramaic text are again the same.

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