Daniel 5:29-31

New King James Version

²⁹Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him ^(A)that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Belshazzar’s Fall

³⁰^(B)That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain. ³¹^(C)And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

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