Daniel 5:28–31
28PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”↗
29Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and proclaimed that he should be the third highest ruler in the kingdom.↗
30In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.↗
31Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.↗
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