Fall of Babylon
192The Medo-Persian Empire
14 May 2024
13:14¶ 59
“That brings us more or less to Daniel chapter 5. The armies of Cyrus the Persian have closed in on Babylon. Now, Babylon is…”
13:35¶ 60
“All the Babylonians/Chaldeans have to do is hold it together. Make sure no one turns traitor and throws open the gates or anything like…”
22:34¶ 85
“In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years…”
158Daniel in the Lion's Den - A Resurrection Story
6 Mar 2023
10:53¶ 42
“We saw in the last chapter that Babylon fell in a night. The secular historians, particularly Herodotus, tell us that Cyrus had his engineers…”
3:18¶ 14
“With the death of Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel had been not forced into retirement, but sidetracked into other work. We find him in one of his…”
3:53¶ 15
“He had to know what was coming and, interestingly enough, he didn’t leave. He knew the armies of Cyrus were out there. He seems…”
157The Handwriting on the Wall
20 Feb 2023
3:25¶ 16
“Meanwhile, the Persian empire was growing to the north. Cyrus had managed to unite the Medes and the Persians, related groups, kissing cousins and…”
4:04¶ 17
“Babylon is a great and glorious city. It has walls so thick that chariots can pass each other. It has the river Euphrates flowing…”
27:32¶ 116
“In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years…”