Ezekiel 38:5

38:5 Persia, ¹  Ethiopia, and Put ²  are with them, all of them with shields and helmets.

Daniel 5:28

5:28 As for peres ³  – your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

[38:5]  ¹ tn D. I. Block prefers to see the Hebrew word as referring here to a western ally of Egypt or as an alternative spelling for Pathros, that is, Upper Egypt. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:439-40.

[38:5]  ² sn That is, Lydia.

[5:28]  ³ sn Peres (פְּרֵס) is the singular form of פַרְסִין (pharsin) in v. 25.