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28 divisions, your kingdom is divided up and given to the Medes and Persians.”[a]

29 Immediately Belshazzar ordered his servants to dress Daniel in a robe of royal purple and to hang a gold chain of honor around his neck. And he made him the third in power in the kingdom. 30 That same night Belshazzar, the king of Babylonia, was killed;

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:28 In Aramaic the word for “Persians” sounds like the word for “division.”

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