26. “This is what these words mean: Mene: God has counted the days until your kingdom will end.
27. Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found not good enough.
28. Parsin: Your kingdom is being divided. It will be given to the Medes and the Persians.”
29. Then Belshazzar gave an order for Daniel to be dressed in purple clothes. A gold chain was put around his neck. And he was announced to be the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
30. That very same night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonian people, was killed.
31. A man named Darius the Mede became the new king. Darius was 62 years old.