Daniel 5:28
Context5:28 As for peres 1 – your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
Daniel 5:1
Context5:1 King Belshazzar 2 prepared a great banquet 3 for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in front of 4 them all. 5
Daniel 1:14
Context1:14 So the warden 6 agreed to their proposal 7 and tested them for ten 8 days.
Daniel 1:1
Context1:1 In the third 9 year of the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar 10 of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem 11 and laid it under siege. 12
[5:28] 1 sn Peres (פְּרֵס) is the singular form of פַרְסִין (pharsin) in v. 25.
[5:1] 2 sn As is clear from the extra-biblical records, it was actually Nabonidus (ca. 556-539
[5:1] 3 sn This scene of a Babylonian banquet calls to mind a similar grandiose event recorded in Esth 1:3-8. Persian kings were also renowned in the ancient Near Eastern world for their lavish banquets.
[5:1] 4 sn The king probably sat at an elevated head table.
[5:1] 5 tn Aram “the thousand.”
[1:14] 6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the warden mentioned in v. 11) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[1:14] 7 tn Heb “listened to them with regard to this matter.”
[1:14] 8 sn The number ten is sometimes used in the OT as an ideal number of completeness. Cf. v. 20; Zech 8:23; Rev 2:10.
[1:1] 9 sn The third year of the reign of Jehoiakim would be ca. 605
[1:1] 10 sn King Nebuchadnezzar ruled Babylon from ca. 605-562
[1:1] 11 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[1:1] 12 sn This attack culminated in the first of three major deportations of Jews to Babylon. The second one occurred in 597