Daniel 5:29-31

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²⁹ Then Belshazzar gave an order for Daniel to be dressed in purple clothes [^Cbefitting a king] and to have a gold chain put around his neck. And it was announced that Daniel was the third highest ruler in the kingdom [v. 7]. ³⁰ That very same night Belshazzar, king of the ·Babylonian people [^LChaldeans], was killed. ³¹ So Darius the Mede ·became the new king [^Lreceived the kingdom] when he was sixty-two years old [^Cwhen the Persians defeated the Babylonians; 539 bc].