Daniel 5:28-30

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²⁸‘^[a]peres’—^[b]your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and ^[c]Persians.”

²⁹Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple and a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation concerning him was issued [declaring] that he now had authority as the third ruler in the kingdom.

³⁰During that same ^[d]night Belshazzar the [last] Chaldean king was slain [by troops of the ^[e]invading army].

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Footnotes

Daniel 5:28 The singular of upharsin (see v 25).
Daniel 5:28 Foretold in Is 21:2, 5, 9.
Daniel 5:28 Aram Paras.
Daniel 5:30 The 16th of Tishri (October 12, 539 b.c).
Daniel 5:30 The Persian army had been outside the walls of Babylon for some time, but waited until this time of national feasting before invading.