28 ‘Peres’[a][b] means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 5:28 Or half a shekel
  2. 5:28 In Aramaic, the word peres is the sg form of “parsin” in v. 25.
  3. 5:28 The Aramaic word for divided and Persians sounds like peres.

But as soon as he is established, his kingdom will be broken up and divided to the four winds of heaven,(A) but not to his descendants; it will not be the same kingdom that he ruled, because his kingdom will be uprooted and will go to others besides them.(B)

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52 From now on, five in one household will be divided: three against two, and two against three.

53 They will be divided, father against son,
son against father,
mother against daughter,
daughter against mother,
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law,
and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 12:53 Mc 7:6

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