Daniel 5:9

Wherewith king Baltasar was much troubled, and his countenance was changed: and his nobles also were troubled.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.

In Context

8Then came in all the king's wise men, but they could neither read the writing, nor declare the interpretation to the king.

10Then the queen, on occasion of what had happened to the king, and his nobles, came into the banquet-house: and she spoke, and said: O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, neither let thy countenance be changed. The queen... Not the wife, but the mother of the king.

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Cross References

Job 18:11Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.

Psalms 48:6Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me. The iniquity of my heel... That is, the iniquity of my steps or ways: or the iniquity of my pride, with which as with the heel, I have spurned and kicked at my neighbours: or the iniquity of my heel, that is, the iniquity in which I shall be found in death. The meaning of this verse is, Why should I now indulge those passions and sinful affections, or commit now those sins, which will cause me so much fear and anguish in the evil day; when the sorrows of death shall compass me, and the perils of hell shall find me?

Isaiah 21:2A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease. O Elam... That is, O Persia.

Jeremiah 30:6Ask ye, and see if a man bear children? why then have I seen every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labour, and all faces are turned yellow?

Daniel 5:6Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

Matthew 2:3And king Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:2-10

Belshazzar's Feast; The Hand-writing on the Wall. ( b. c. 538.) 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God… Read the whole commentary →

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