Daniel 5:28 Cross References - ISV

²⁸ PERES: Your kingdom has been divided—and will be given to the Medes and Persians.”

¹⁷ Babylon FallsWatch out! I’m stirring up the Medes against them, who care nothing for silver and take no delight in gold.

² A dire vision has been announced to me: the traitor betrays, and the plunderer takes loot. Get up, Elam! Attack, Media! I am putting a stop to all the groaning she has caused.

¹ Cyrus: God’s Deliverer This is what the LORD says to his anointed, Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, as I strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him and gates that cannot keep closed: ² “I myself will go before you, and he will make the mountains level; I’ll shatter bronze doors and cut through iron bars.

³¹ and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom at the age of 62.

²⁸ Daniel achieved success during the reigns of Darius and Cyrus the Persian.

³ “Then I turned my head to look, and to my surprise, a two-horned ram was standing beside the canal. The two horns grew long, the first one growing longer than the second, with the longer one springing up last. ⁴ I watched the ram charging westward, northward, and southward. No animal could stand before him, nor was there anyone who could deliver from his control. He did as he pleased and exalted himself.

²⁰ The ram that you saw with a pair of horns are the kings of Media and Persia.

¹ Daniel’s Prayer“In the first year of the reign of Darius son of Ahasuerus, a descendant of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans—