28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to (A)the Medes and (B)Persians.”[a]

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  1. Daniel 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia

28 Peres[a]: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes(A) and Persians.”(B)

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  1. Daniel 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) can mean divided or Persia or a half mina or a half shekel.

31 [a] And (A)Darius (B)the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

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  1. Daniel 5:31 Ch 6:1 in Aramaic

31 and Darius(A) the Mede(B) took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two.[a]

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  1. Daniel 5:31 In Aramaic texts this verse (5:31) is numbered 6:1.

Daniel's Prayer for His People

(A)In the first year of (B)Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a (C)Mede, who was made king over the realm of the (D)Chaldeans—

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Daniel’s Prayer

In the first year of Darius(A) son of Xerxes[a](B) (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian[b] kingdom—

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  1. Daniel 9:1 Hebrew Ahasuerus
  2. Daniel 9:1 Or Chaldean

17 Behold, (A)I am stirring up the Medes against them,
    who have no regard for silver
    and do not delight in gold.

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17 See, I will stir up(A) against them the Medes,(B)
    who do not care for silver
    and have no delight in gold.(C)

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A stern vision is told to me;
    (A)the traitor betrays,
    and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O (B)Elam;
    lay siege, O (C)Media;
all the (D)sighing she has caused
    I bring to an end.

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A dire(A) vision has been shown to me:
    The traitor betrays,(B) the looter takes loot.
Elam,(C) attack! Media,(D) lay siege!
    I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.

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28 (A)Prepare (B)the nations for war against her,
    the kings of (C)the Medes, (D)with their governors (E)and deputies,
    and every (F)land under their dominion.

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28 Prepare the nations for battle against her—
    the kings of the Medes,(A)
their governors and all their officials,
    and all the countries they rule.(B)

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