Daniel 5:28

PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. PERES - the explanation of 'dividers' (), the active participle plural, "Upharsin," there being used for the passive participle singular, 'dividers' for "divided." The word "Peres" alludes to the similar word Persia. THY KINGDOM IS DIVIDED - namely, among the Medes and Persians (Maurer); or, severed from thee (Grotius)....

The word פרס, Pheres, is added, for the word Phersin, meaning _his kingdom was divided _among the Medes and Persians. I have no doubt that by this word God signified the dispersion of the Monarchy which was at hand. When, therefore, he says Upharsin, _and they shall divide, _it signifies the instability of the Monarchy, since he wished to destroy or utterly abolish it. But the Prophet alludes _very _appositely to the division made between the Medes and Persians; and thus his disgrace was _increased _by the Babylonians being compelled to serve many masters. This is indeed a grave and serious disgrace, when a people has obtained a wide and extensive empire, to be afterwards conquered and subjected to the yoke of a single master; but when it suffers under two masters, then the indignity is greatly _increased. _So Daniel here shews how God’s wrath was complicated in the destruction of the mo...

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...

PERES - In Daniel 5:25 this is “Upharsin.” These are but different forms of the same word - the word in Daniel 5:25 being in the plural, and here in the singular. The verb (פרס _p__e__ras_) means, to “divide;” and in this form, as in the previous cases, it is, according to Gesenius, participle meaning “divided.” As it stands here, it would be applicable to anything that was “divided” or “sundered” - whether a kingdom, a palace, a house, territory, etc. “What” was divided could be known only by Divine revelation. If the “word” had been understood by Belshazzar, undoubtedly it would have suggested the idea that there was to be some sort of division or sundering, but what that was to be would not be indicated by the mere use of the

EXPOSITION DANIEL 5:1 BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST. In regard to this chapter the peculiar state of the Septuagint text has to be noted. At the beginning of the chapter there are three verses which seem to be either variant versions of the Septuagint text, or versions of a text which was different from that from which the Septuagint has been drawn. Throughout the chapter, further, there are traces of doublets. Most of these variations occur in the Syriac of Paulus Tellensis. DANIEL 5:1 BELSHAZZAR THE KING MADE A GREAT FEAST TO A THOUSAND OF HIS LORDS, AND DRANK WINE BEFORE THE THOUSAND. AS WE have just indicated, there are two versions in the Septuagint of several verses in this chapte

PERES,.... The singular of "Pharsin", Daniel 5:25. The sense of this word is, THY KINGDOM IS DIVIDED: which, though it consisted of various provinces, united under Belshazzar, now should be broken and separated from him: AND GIVEN TO THE MEDES AND PERSIANS; to Darius the Mede, and to Cyrus the Persian, who was a partner for a while with his uncle Darius in the government of the empire: there is an elegant play on words in the words "Peres" and "Persians"; and a grievous thing it is to sinners, not only to have body and soul divided at death, but to be divided and separated from God to all eternity; and to hear that sentence, "depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels"....

CHAPTER 5 BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST _ 1. Belshazzar's licentious feast (Daniel 5:1)_ 2. The writing on the wall (Daniel 5:5) 3. Forgotten Daniel (Daniel 5:10) 4. The message of Daniel (Daniel 5:17) Daniel 5:1. This feast of wickedness and blasphemy needs no further annotations. But it shows the great decline morally in the great Babylonian empire. Nebuchadnezzar, no doubt, had handled the golden vessels of the house of the Lord most carefully. He had stored them away, fearing to misuse them. The grandson sent for these vessels to drink

DANIEL 5. Belshazzar, who is represented as king of Babylon, makes a great feast, using the vessels which his father had brought to Babylon from the Temple at Jerusalem. During the feast the fingers of a man's hand are seen, writing on the wall. _Daniel_ explains the handwriting and tells the king that his days are numbered and that his kingdom is to be given to the Medes and Persians. That night the king is murdered and Darius the Mede assumes the throne. The motive of the chapter is again quite plain. Nebuchadnezzar's act of sacrilege has its parallel in the profanation of the Temple by Antiochus Epiphanes; and the fate of Belshazzar is depicted as an encouragement to the persecuted Jews of the Maccabean age. The chapter raises some very serious historical difficulties (see notes on Daniel 5:1 and Daniel 5:31

PERES; THY KINGDOM IS DIVIDED. _Upharsin,_ found in the 25th verse, is the plural of _peres,_ which means "divided." The king had been tested in the balance and was wanting; his lords were also wanting; so was the kingdom; therefore it was numbered and divided. It would be taken away and given to the Medes and Persians. This leads to the reflection that the fate of Babylon was like that of all countries and kingdoms. When God weighed Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Judea, Greece, Rome, Poland, and found them wanting, he numbered their days and divided them to others. It is the corrupt nation that perishes. That night, probably before Daniel had completed his interpretation, the Persians turned the current of the Euphrates into the great canals they had dug, marched under the walls through the arches where the river had run, found the gates of the walls along the river open, marched in and bega...

MADE. PROCLAMATION. See note on "herald", Daniel 3:4....