Daniel 5:30
That same night, king Belshazzar the Chaldean was killed.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
In Context
31And Darius the Mede succeeded to the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two years.
Cross References
Isaiah 21:4My heart withered. The darkness stupefied me. Babylon, my beloved, has become a wonder to me.
Jeremiah 51:11Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers. The Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. And his mind is against Babylon, so that he may destroy her. For this is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.
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.
Daniel 5:1Belshazzar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and each one of them drank according to his age.
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 →