Chapter Five

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The Book of Daniel

• Chapter Five

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The Book of Daniel

• Belshazzar (51)
• 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).

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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
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The Book of Daniel

• Darius the Mede, son of
  Ahasuerus (531 91).
• Cyrus was son of Cambyses Mandane (daughter of
  Median king Astyages, son of Cyaxeres)
  Herodotus Bk I, 108-109.
• Tobit calls Cyaxeres Ahasuerus (1415).
• 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).

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The Book of Daniel

• Darius the Mede, son of
  Ahasuerus (531 91).
• Darius Lord King
• Astyages Darius the Mede?