# Daniel 5:28

> PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

— Daniel 5:28, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- 539 BC (counted from the text)
- Date source: Daniel 5 tells of the night, not the year. The Cyrus Cylinder and the Nabonidus Chronicle date the fall of Babylon to October 539 BC.

## Who ruled

- **Belshazzar**, king of Babylon, 553-539 BC · Source: The Nabonidus Chronicle and the tablets that name Belshazzar as son and co-regent. The co-regency explains why, in Daniel 5:7 and 5:29, the reward is *third* place in the kingdom and not second.
- **Cyrus the Great**, king of Persia, 559-530 BC · Source: Cyrus Cylinder (British Museum), which records the policy of sending peoples and their cults back to their own lands; Herodotus I

## See also

- Isaiah 13:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/13/17
- Daniel 6:28 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/6/28
- Isaiah 21:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/21/2
- Daniel 5:31 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/5/31
- Isaiah 45:1-2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/45/1
- Daniel 8:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/8/20
- Daniel 9:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/9/1

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/5/28
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/5
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).