Daniel 5:28 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Daniel 5:28 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 13:17
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
Daniel 6:28
So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Isaiah 21:2
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
Daniel 5:31
And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
Isaiah 45:1-2
Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-29)

Here is, I. The information given to the king, by the queen-mother, concerning Daniel, how fit he was to be consulted in this difficult case. It is supposed that this queen was the widow of Evil-Merodach, and was that famous Nitocris whom Herodotus mentions as a woman of extraordinary prudence. She was not present at the feast, as the king’s wives and concubines were (Dan. 5:2); it was not agreeab…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 28)

28. Peres--the explanation of “dividers” (Da 5:25), the active participle plural there being used for the passive participle singular, “dividers” for “divided.” The word “Peres” alludes to the similar word “Persia.” divided--namely, among the Medes and Persians [Maurer]; or, “severed” from thee [Grotius].