Daniel 5:30
In that very night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
In Context
31(6:1) And Darius the Median obtained the kingdom, when he was sixty and two years old.
Cross References
Isaiah 21:4My heart wandereth astray, dread affrighteth me: the evening of my pleasure hath he turned unto me into terror.
Jeremiah 51:11Make bright the arrows; fill the quivers: the Lord hath awakened the spirit of the kings of Media; for against Babylon is his intention, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for his temple.
Jeremiah 51:39When they are heated will I prepare their drinking-feasts, and I will make them drunken, in order that they may be joyful, and [then] sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake again, saith the Lord.
Daniel 5:1King Belshazzar prepared a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and before these thousand did he drink wine.
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 →