26 This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it;
27 TEKEL: aYou have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting;
28 PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the aMedes and bPersians.”
29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him athat he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Belshazzar’s Fall
30 aThat very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain.
31 aAnd Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
No entry exists in John Wesley's Notes for Daniel 5:28.
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