Daniel 5:28
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28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to (A)the Medes and (B)Persians.”[a]
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- Daniel 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia
Daniel 6:28
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28 So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and (A)the reign of (B)Cyrus the Persian.
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Isaiah 13:17
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17 Behold, (A)I am stirring up the Medes against them,
who have no regard for silver
and do not delight in gold.
Daniel 5:31
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31 [a] And (A)Darius (B)the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
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- Daniel 5:31 Ch 6:1 in Aramaic
Isaiah 21:2
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2 A stern vision is told to me;
(A)the traitor betrays,
and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O (B)Elam;
lay siege, O (C)Media;
all the (D)sighing she has caused
I bring to an end.
Daniel 9:1
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Daniel's Prayer for His People
9 (A)In the first year of (B)Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a (C)Mede, who was made king over the realm of the (D)Chaldeans—
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Isaiah 45:1-2
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Cyrus, God's Instrument
45 Thus says the Lord to (A)his anointed, to Cyrus,
(B)whose right hand I have grasped,
to subdue nations before him
and (C)to loose the belts of kings,
to open doors before him
that gates may not be closed:
2 “I will go before you
and (D)level the exalted places,[a]
(E)I will break in pieces the doors of bronze
and cut through the bars of iron,
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- Isaiah 45:2 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint level the mountains
Daniel 8:20
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20 As for (A)the ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of (B)Media and Persia.
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Daniel 8:3-4
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3 I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, (A)a ram standing on the bank of the canal. It had two horns, and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last. 4 I saw (B)the ram charging westward and northward and southward. No (C)beast (D)could stand before him, (E)and there was no one who could rescue from his power. (F)He did as he pleased and (G)became great.
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