“In the same night king Belshazzar the Chaldean was killed and Darius the Mede received the kingdom being sixty-two years old. [Daniel 5:29-31] After the interpretation had been solved by Daniel, just as Scripture encompasses all things, in the same night the phrase was fulfilled and the kingdom of the Babylonians pass…”
Hippolytus of Rome, 3th c. — Commentary on Daniel 3.18.2-3
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30In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
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28PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
29Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
— Daniel 5:30 —
31And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.