28. divisions, your kingdom is divided up and given to the Medes and Persians.”
29. Immediately Belshazzar ordered his servants to dress Daniel in a robe of royal purple and to hang a gold chain of honour round his neck. And he made him the third in power in the kingdom.
30. That same night Belshazzar, the king of Babylonia, was killed;
31. and Darius the Mede, who was then 62 years old, seized the royal power.