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Daniel 5:9

This made King Belshazzar even more frightened and his face grew even paler. His nobles also were in panic.

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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

8However, after all the king's wise men had come in, they could not read the writing or explain to him what it meant.

10When the queen mother heard the noise the king and the nobles were making she went to the banquet hall. She said to Belshazzar, “May Your Majesty the king live forever! Don't be frightened! Don't look so pale!

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Cross References

Job 18:11Terrors scare the wicked, coming at them from every side, chasing them, biting at their heels.

Psalms 48:6They shook all over, and were in agonizing pain like a woman giving birth,

Isaiah 21:2a horrifying vision that has been explained to me. The betrayer still betrays; the destroyer still destroys. Elamites and Medes, go ahead, attack and lay siege to Babylon, for I'm putting a stop to all the pain it has caused.

Jeremiah 30:6Think about it! Can men give birth? No. So why do I see every man holding his stomach with his hands like a woman in labor. Why is every face white as a sheet?

Daniel 5:6His face turned pale, and he became very frightened. His legs gave way and his knees knocked together.

Matthew 2:3When King Herod heard about it, he was very disturbed, and the whole of 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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