Daniel 5:1

Belshazzar the king has made a great feast to one thousand of his great men, and before the one thousand he is drinking wine;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

In Context

2Belshazzar has said—while tasting the wine—to bring in the vessels of gold and of silver that his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple that [is] in Jerusalem, that the king may drink with them, and his great men, his wives, and his concubines.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:20And it comes to pass, on the third day, Pharaoh’s birthday, that he makes a banquet to all his servants, and lifts up the head of the chief of the butlers, and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants,

Isaiah 21:4My heart has wandered, trembling has terrified me, || He has made the twilight of my desire a fear to me,

Isaiah 22:12And the Lord calls, YHWH of Hosts, || In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, || And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,

Jeremiah 51:39In their heat I make their banquets, || And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, || And have slept a continuous sleep, || And do not awaken,” a declaration of YHWH.

Nahum 1:10For while princes [are] perplexed, || And with their drink are drunken, || They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:1

The destruction of the kingdom of Babylon had been long and often foretold when it was at a distance; in this chapter we have it accomplished, and a prediction of it the very same night that it was accomplished. Belshazzar now reigned in Babylon; some compute he had reigned seventeen years, others but three; we have here the story of his exit and the period of his kingdom. We must know that about two years before this Cyrus king of Persia, a growing monarch, came against Babylon with a great army; Belshazzar met… Read the whole commentary →

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