Daniel 5:1

Belshazzar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and each one of them drank according to his age.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2And so, when they were drunk, he instructed that the vessels of gold and silver should be brought, which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had carried away from the temple, which was in Jerusalem, so that the king, and his nobles, and his wives, and the concubines, might drink from them.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:20The third day thereafter was the birthday of Pharaoh. And making a great feast for his servants, he remembered, during the banquet, the chief cupbearer and the chief miller of grain.

Isaiah 21:4My heart withered. The darkness stupefied me. Babylon, my beloved, has become a wonder to me.

Isaiah 22:12And in that day, the Lord, the God of hosts, will call to weeping and mourning, to baldness and the wearing of sackcloth.

Jeremiah 51:39In their heat, I will give them a drink, and I will inebriate them, so that they become drowsy, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and do not rise up, says the Lord.

Nahum 1:10For just as thorns entwine one another, so also, while they are feasting and drinking together, they will be consumed like stubble that is completely 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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