Daniel 5:9

Then King Belshazzar became even more terrified, his face grew even more pale, and his nobles were bewildered.

Berean Standard Bible

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

8So all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or interpret it for him.

10Hearing the outcry of the king and his nobles, the queen entered the banquet hall. “O king, may you live forever!” she said. “Do not let your thoughts terrify you, or your face grow pale.

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Cross References

Job 18:11Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

Psalms 48:6Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

Isaiah 21:2A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”

Jeremiah 30:6Ask now, and see: Can a male give birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?

Daniel 5:6his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.

Matthew 2:3When King Herod heard this, he was disturbed, 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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