Daniel 5:28 Cross References - NSB

²⁸ »PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.«

¹⁷ »I will stir up the Medes against them. They will not value silver or take pleasure in gold.

² I have seen a vision of cruel events, a vision of betrayal and destruction. Army of Elam, attack! Army of Media, lay siege to the cities! God will put an end to the suffering that Babylon has caused.

¹ This is WHAT JEHOVAH SAYS ABOUT CYRUS, his anointed one: »I have held him by his right hand so he could conquer the nations ahead of him; that he could strip kings of their power, and open doors ahead of him so that the gates would not be shut. ² »I will go ahead of you, Cyrus. I will smooth out the rough places. I will break down the copper doors and cut through the iron bars.

³¹ Darius the Mede received the kingdom. He was sixty-two years old.

²⁸ So Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

³ A ram with two horns stood next to the river. The two horns were tall, but one was taller than the other, and the taller one came up last. ⁴ I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward. No beasts could stand before him. Neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand. He did what ever he wanted and boasted about himself.

²⁰ »The ram that you saw that had the two horns symbolizes (represents) the kings of MEDIA and PERSIA.

¹ In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus (Xerxes), of the lineage of the Medes. He was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans.