Daniel 5:26-31 ▼

26 This is the interpretation of the message: ‘MENE’—God has numbered the days of your kingdom and put an end to it;

27 ‘TEKEL’—you have been weighed on the scales [of righteousness] and found deficient;

28 ‘PERES’—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple and a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation concerning him was issued [declaring] that he now had authority as the third ruler in the kingdom.

30 During that same night Belshazzar the [last] Chaldean king was slain [by troops of the invading army].

31 So Darius the Mede received the kingdom; he was about the age of sixty-two.