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Daniel 5:6

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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

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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.



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