THEOSISDaniel 5:28Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians.
פְּרֵ֑ס פְּרִיסַת֙ מַלְכוּתָ֔ךְ וִיהִיבַ֖ת לְמָדַ֥י וּפָרָֽס׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Isa 13:17Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:
- Dan 6:28Now Daniel continued unto the reign of Darius, and the reign of Cyrus, the Persian.
- Isa 21:2A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.
- Dan 5:31And Darius, the Mede, succeeded to the kingdom, being threescore and two years old.
- Dan 9:1In the first year of Darius, the son of Assuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:
- Isa 45:1Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs of kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut.
- Isa 45:2I will go before thee, and will humble the great ones of the earth: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and will burst the bars of iron.
- Dan 8:20The ram, which thou sawest with horns, is the king of the Medes and Persians.