Isaiah 13:15-16

13:15 Everyone who is caught will be stabbed;

everyone who is seized ¹  will die ²  by the sword.

13:16 Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes;

their houses will be looted

and their wives raped.

Ezekiel 30:24

30:24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will place my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan like the fatally wounded before the king of Babylon. ³ 

Daniel 5:30-31

5:30 And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, ⁴  was killed. ⁵  5:31 (6:1) ⁶  So Darius the Mede took control of the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old.

¹ tn Heb “carried off,” i.e., grabbed from the fleeing crowd. See HALOT 764 s.v. ספה.

² tn Heb “will fall” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NLT “will be run through with a sword.”

³ tn Heb “him”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Aram “king of the Chaldeans.”

⁵ sn The year was 539 B.C. At this time Daniel would have been approximately eighty-one years old. The relevant extra-biblical records describing the fall of Babylon include portions of Herodotus, Xenophon, Berossus (cited in Josephus), the Cyrus Cylinder, and the Babylonian Chronicle.

⁶ sn Beginning with 5:31, the verse numbers through 6:28 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Aramaic text (BHS), with 5:31 ET = 6:1 AT, 6:1 ET = 6:2 AT, 6:2 ET = 6:3 AT, 6:3 ET = 6:4 AT, etc., through 6:28 ET = 6:29 AT. Beginning with 7:1 the verse numbers in the English Bible and the Aramaic text are again the same.