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The Book of Daniel

The Book of Daniel. Chapter Five. The Book of Daniel. “Belshazzar” (5:1) Nabopolassar (Neb. I ) – (626-605 BC). Nebuchadnezzar II – ( 605-562 BC). Evil-Merodach – (562-560 BC). Neglissar – (560-556 BC). Labosordacus – (556 BC). Nabonidus & Belshazzar – (556-538 BC). LYDIAN KINGDOM.

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The Book of Daniel

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  1. The Book of Daniel Chapter Five

  2. The Book of Daniel “Belshazzar” (5:1) • Nabopolassar (Neb. I ) – (626-605 BC). • Nebuchadnezzar II – ( 605-562 BC). • Evil-Merodach – (562-560 BC). • Neglissar – (560-556 BC). • Labosordacus – (556 BC). • Nabonidus & Belshazzar – (556-538 BC).

  3. LYDIAN KINGDOM Neo-Babylonian Empire Medo-Persian Empire Nineveh KINGDOM OF THE MEDES Ashur Tigris River GREAT SEA Euphrates River Jerusalem Babylon KINGDOM OF EGYPT Nile River PERSIAN GULF RED SEA

  4. The Book of Daniel “Darius the Mede, son of Ahasuerus” (5:31; 9:1). • Cyrus was son of Cambyses & Mandane (daughter of Median king Astyages, son of Cyaxeres) – Herodotus Bk I, 108-109. • Tobit calls Cyaxeres “Ahasuerus” (14:15). • Cyrus deposed Astyages but but treated him with “great consideration and kept him at his court until he died” – Herodotus (Bk I, 130). • Aeschylus considered Median kings predecessors of Cyrus (Persians, 766).

  5. The Book of Daniel “Darius the Mede, son of Ahasuerus” (5:31; 9:1). • Darius = “Lord King” • Astyages = “Darius the Mede”?

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