Daniel 5:28 Cross References - LEB

²⁸ " 'Peres'—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.'"

¹⁷ Look! I am stirring the Medes up against them, who do not value silver and do not delight in gold.

² A hard revelation is told to me;
the treacherous deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; lay siege, Media!
I put an end to all of her sighing.

¹ Thus says Yahweh to his anointed one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subjugate nations before him, and I uncover* the loins of kings to open doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: ² "I myself will go before you, and I will level the _⌊mountains_⌋.* I will break the doors of bronze and cut throughthe bars of iron.

³¹ * And Darius the Mede received the kingdom _⌊when he was about sixty-two years old_⌋.*

²⁸ So this Daniel prospered during the kingdom of Darius and during the kingdom of Cyrus the Persian.

³ And I lifted up my eyes and I saw, and look! A ram* standing _⌊before_⌋* the stream, and _⌊it had_⌋* two horns, and the horns were long, but the one was longer than the second, and the longer one came up _⌊after the other one_⌋.* ⁴ I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward, and _⌊none of the beasts stood before it_⌋,* and there was no rescuing from _⌊its power_⌋,* and it did _⌊what it wanted_⌋* and it became strong.*

²⁰ "The ram that you saw _⌊who had two horns_⌋* represents the kings of Media and Persia.

¹ In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus,* from the offspring of the Medes, who became king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans—