Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
In Context
31And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
Cross References
Isaiah 21:4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
Jeremiah 51:11Make sharp the arrows. Hold firm the shields. LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it. For it is the vengeance of LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah 51:39When they are heated, I will make their feast. And I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says LORD.
Daniel 5:1Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:11-30
Daniel Brought before Belshazzar. ( b. c. 538.) 10 Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: 11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy… Read the whole commentary →