28. Parsin: Your kingdom is being divided and will be given to the Medes and the Persians.”
29. Then Belshazzar gave an order for Daniel to be dressed in purple clothes and to have a gold chain put around his neck. And it was announced that Daniel was the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
30. That very same night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonian people, was killed.
31. So Darius the Mede became the new king when he was sixty-two years old.