Daniel 5:21
And he was driven out from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses, and he did eat grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till he knew that the most High ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he will set over it whomsoever it shall please him.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
22Thou also, his son, O Baltasar, hast not humbled thy heart, whereas thou knewest all these things:
Cross References
Job 30:3Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.
Ezekiel 17:24And all the trees of the country shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, and exalted the low tree: and have dried up the green tree, and have caused the dry tree to flourish. I the Lord have spoken and have done it.
Daniel 4:17The tree which thou sawest, which was high and strong, whose height reached to the skies, and the sight thereof into all the earth:
Daniel 4:25All these things came upon king Nabuchodonosor.
Daniel 4:32And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing before him: for he doth according to his will, as well with the powers of heaven, as among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none that can resist his hand, and say to him: Why hast thou done it?
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 →