Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
In Context
31(6-1) And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
Cross References
Isaiah 21:4My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me; the twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.
Jeremiah 51:11Make bright the arrows, fill the quivers, the LORD hath roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because His device is against Babylon, to destroy it; for it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of His temple.
Jeremiah 51:39With their poison I will prepare their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may be convulsed, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Daniel 5:1Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
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 →