5:26. And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.
5:27. THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.
5:28. PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians.
5:29. Then by the king's command, Daniel was clothed with purple, and a chain of gold was put about his neck: and it was proclaimed of him that he had power as the third man in the kingdom.
5:30. The same night Baltasar, the Chaldean king, was slain.
5:31. And Darius, the Mede, succeeded to the kingdom, being threescore and two years old.
Darius. . .He is called Cyaxares by the historians; and was the son of
Astyages, and uncle to Cyrus.
Daniel Chapter 6
Daniel is promoted by Darius: his enemies procure a law forbidding prayer; for the transgression of this law Daniel is cast into the lions' den: but miraculously delivered.
6:1. It seemed good to Darius, and he appointed over the kingdom a hundred and twenty governors, to be over his whole kingdom.