A moment in scripture
Daniel 5:28
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PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
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The surrounding passage
- Daniel 5:26
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
- Daniel 5:27
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
- Daniel 5:29
Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:30
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.