28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
28 Peres
28 PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."
28 "Peres: Your kingdom has been divided up and handed over to the Medes and Persians."
28 Peres: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."
28 means 'divided'-your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians."
20 The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.
20 The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.
20 As for the ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia.
20 "'The double-horned ram you saw stands for the two kings of the Medes and Persians.
20 The ram which you saw, having the two horns--they are the kings of Media and Persia.
20 The two-horned ram represents the kings of Media and Persia.
(Read Daniel 8:15-27)
The eternal Son of God stood before the prophet in the appearance of a man, and directed the angel Gabriel to explain the vision. Daniel's fainting and astonishment at the prospect of evils he saw coming on his people and the church, confirm the opinion that long-continued calamities were foretold. The vision being ended, a charge was given to Daniel to keep it private for the present. He kept it to himself, and went on to do the duty of his place. As long as we live in this world we must have something to do in it; and even those whom God has most honoured, must not think themselves above their business. Nor must the pleasure of communion with God take us from the duties of our callings, but we must in them abide with God. All who are intrusted with public business must discharge their trust uprightly; and, amidst all doubts and discouragements, they may, if true believers, look forward to a happy issue. Thus should we endeavour to compose our minds for attending to the duties to which each is appointed, in the church and in the world.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Daniel 5:28
Commentary on Daniel 5:18-31
(Read Daniel 5:18-31)
Daniel reads Belshazzar's doom. He had not taken warning by the judgments upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he had insulted God. Sinners are pleased with gods that neither see, nor hear, nor know; but they will be judged by One to whom all things are open. Daniel reads the sentence written on the wall. All this may well be applied to the doom of every sinner. At death, the sinner's days are numbered and finished; after death is the judgment, when he will be weighed in the balance, and found wanting; and after judgment the sinner will be cut asunder, and given as a prey to the devil and his angels. While these things were passing in the palace, it is considered that the army of Cyrus entered the city; and when Belshazzar was slain, a general submission followed. Soon will every impenitent sinner find the writing of God's word brought to pass upon him, whether he is weighed in the balance of the law as a self-righteous Pharisee, or in that of the gospel as a painted hypocrite.