Daniel 5:31 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. ”

Daniel 5:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And Darius the Median took the kingdom - The city and kingdom were actually taken by Cyrus, though acting in the name and by the authority of Darius, or Cyaxares, who was his uncle. For a full ex...
Daniel 5:31 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And Darius (o) the Median took the kingdom, [being] about threescore and two years old. (o) Cyrus his son-in-law gave him this title of honour, even though Cyrus in effect had the dominion.
Daniel 5:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5. Belshazzar, who is represented as king of Babylon, makes a great feast, using the vessels which his father had brought to Babylon from the Temple at Jerusalem. During the feast the finger...
Daniel 5:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Darius the Median . Through not noting the fact that "Darius" was an appellative denoting "the Maintainer", and used by Xerxes and others, modern critics have denied the existence of such. king. AST...
Daniel 5:31 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel adds, the kingdom was transferred to the king of the Medes, whom he calls Darius, but Xenophon terms him Cyaxares. It is clear enough that Babylon was taken by the skill and under the...
Daniel 5:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. Darius the Median took the kingdom - This is supposed to be the same as Cyaxares, son of Astyages and maternal uncl...
Daniel 5:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And Darius the Median took the kingdom— And Darius the Mede accepted the kingdom; so the Syriac and Arabic versions. This Darius, in the ninth chapter, is said to be of the seed of the Medes, a...
Daniel 5:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. Darius the Median took the kingdom - i:e., Cyaxares II, the son and successor of Astyages, B.C. 569-536. Thou...
Daniel 5:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Belshazzar's Feast Belshazzar, king of Babylon, holds a great feast, at which he profanely uses the sacred vessels taken by Nebuchadnezzar from the Temple at Jerusalem ( Daniel 5:1-4 ). He is terr...
Daniel 5:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Darius the Median. — Note the LXX. variation: “And Artaxerxes of the Medes took the kingdom, and Darius, full of days and glorious in old age.” (See Excursus D. ) Took — i.e., received it fro...
Daniel 5:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE FIERY INSCRIPTION IN this chapter again we have another magnificent fresco-picture, intended, as was the last-but under circumstances of aggravated guilt and more terrible menace-to teach the...
Daniel 5:31 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Weighed and Found Wanting Daniel 5:17-31 Daniel was unperturbed and undismayed. Calm and collected, he recognized his Father's handwriting, and read it, as the instructed may decipher a scroll...
Daniel 5:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The next scene is cast in the reign of Belshazzar. He had succeeded to the throne of his father, and was a man of profligate habits. No details are given of his reign, but a graphic picture is set be...
Daniel 5:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Short, but awful, the account of the king's death! In that night. A night indeed of terrors. Certainly it was a night of the most daring impiety. Probably also, a night of drunkenness. So died this w...
Daniel 5:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Darius the Median took the kingdom ,.... This was Cyaxares the son of Astyages, and uncle of Cyrus; he is called the Median, to distinguish him from another Darius the Persian, that came after,...
Daniel 5:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Darius the Median took the kingdom, [being] about threescore and two years old. Ver. 31. And Darius. ] Called by Ctesias, Dαριαιος, which comes near to Dariaves, as the Chaldee here calleth hi...
Daniel 5:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain He and all his nobles were slain together, in the midst of their feasting and revelling, as Herodotus, lib. 1., and Xenophon, inform us....
Daniel 5:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Daniel Deals Plainly with Belshazzar; Interpreting of the Writing on the Wall. B. C. 538. ...
Daniel 5:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

There were two of this name, one called the Mede, another Darius called Persian. This in the text was he that with Cyrus besieged and took Babylon; he gave himself the name Darius, being before calle...
Daniel 5:31 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘In that night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was slain, and Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty two years old.' The king was probably slain in what fighting there was, alo...
Daniel 5:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

HOMILETICS SECT. XVII.—BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST (Chap. 5.) This chapter deservedly a favourite with general readers [126]. The magnificence, excitement, and revelry of the royal feast; the profligate k...
Daniel 5:31 - Scofield Reference Notes

Darius the Median The biblical order of the monarchs of Daniel's time, and of the period of the captivity and restoration of Judah, is as follows: (1) Nebuchadnezzar (B.C. 604-561) with who...
Daniel 5:31 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Daniel 5:1-31 I. Belshazzar's feast was characterised by great intemperance. II. It was characterised by great profanity. III. This night was one of supernatural visitation. IV. This was a nigh...
Daniel 5:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel 5:2 . Belshazzar his father Nebuchadnezzar. Belshazzar was the son of Evilmerodach, and grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. The empire therefore falling at this time, fulfilled the prophecy, that a...
Daniel 5:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Daniel 5:1-27 BELSHAZZAR 'S FEAST . In regard to this chapter the peculiar state of the Septuagint text has to be noted. At the beginning of the chapter there are three verses...
Daniel 5:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Interpretation and the Fulfilment
Daniel 5:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 6:1 ; Daniel 9:1
Daniel 5:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Darius the Mede — This was he that with Cyrus besieged and took Babylon.

Daniel 5:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Daniel 5:31 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Daniel 5:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Daniel 5:31 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Daniel 5:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Daniel 5:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Daniel 5:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Daniel 5:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Daniel 5:31 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Daniel 5:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Daniel 5:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Daniel 5:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Daniel 5:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Daniel 5:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel 5:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Daniel 5:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Daniel 5:31 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Daniel 5:31 - Scofield Reference Notes

Daniel 5:31 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Daniel 5:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel 5:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Daniel 5:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Daniel 5:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 5:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes