Daniel 5:30
On that very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was killed
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
In Context
31and Darius the Mede was given the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
Cross References
Isaiah 21:4My mind falters; I shake in panic. The night I looked forward to has become terrifying.
Jeremiah 51:11Sharpen the arrows! Pick up the shields! The Lord has encouraged the kings of the Medes, because his plan is directed at the destruction of Babylon. The Lord is paying them back for what happened to his Temple.
Jeremiah 51:39But while their passions are aroused, I will serve them a banquet and get them drunk. They'll celebrate so much that they'll pass out and won't ever wake up, declares the Lord.
Daniel 5:1King Belshazzar held a great feast for one thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking 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 →