Daniel 5:28

28 Peres^[a] : Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Daniel 5:28 in Other Translations

28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

28 PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

28 means ‘divided’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

28 "Peres: Your kingdom has been divided up and handed over to the Medes and Persians."

28 PERES [means that] your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

Daniel 5:28 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 5:28

PERES
The singular of "Pharsin", ( Daniel 5:25 ) . The sense of this word is, thy kingdom is divided:
which, though it consisted of various provinces, united under Belshazzar, now should be broken and separated from him: and given to the Medes and Persians;
to Darius the Mede, and to Cyrus the Persian, who was a partner for a while with his uncle Darius in the government of the empire: there is an elegant play on words in the words "Peres" and "Persians"; and a grievous thing it is to sinners, not only to have body and soul divided at death, but to be divided and separated from God to all eternity; and to hear that sentence, "depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels".

Daniel 5:28 In-Context

26 “Here is what these words mean: Mene : God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

27 Tekel : You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

28 Peres : Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

29 Then at Belshazzar’s command, Daniel was clothed in purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.

30 That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain,

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 13:17
• 2. S Jeremiah 27:7; Jeremiah 50:41-43; Daniel 6:28

Footnotes

• [a]. "Peres" (the singular of "Parsin" ) can mean "divided" or "Persia" or "a half mina" or "a half shekel" .