Daniel 5:1

Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.

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Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

In Context

2Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:20Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his servants; and he gave honour to the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker among the others.

Isaiah 21:4My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.

Isaiah 22:12And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

Jeremiah 51:39When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.

Nahum 1:10For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:1

The destruction of the kingdom of Babylon had been long and often foretold when it was at a distance; in this chapter we have it accomplished, and a prediction of it the very same night that it was accomplished. Belshazzar now reigned in Babylon; some compute he had reigned seventeen years, others but three; we have here the story of his exit and the period of his kingdom. We must know that about two years before this Cyrus king of Persia, a growing monarch, came against Babylon with a great army; Belshazzar met… Read the whole commentary →

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