Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
In Context
31and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
Cross References
Isaiah 21:4My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
Jeremiah 51:11Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD— vengeance for His temple.
Jeremiah 51:39While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
Daniel 5:1Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
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 →