Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
In Context
31and Darius the Mede has received the kingdom when a son of sixty-two years.
Cross References
Isaiah 21:4My heart has wandered, trembling has terrified me, || He has made the twilight of my desire a fear to me,
Jeremiah 51:11Cleanse the arrows, fill the shields, || YHWH has stirred up the spirit of the kings of Media, || For His purpose [is] against Babylon to destroy her, || For it [is] the vengeance of YHWH, || The vengeance of His temple.
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.
Daniel 5:1Belshazzar the king has made a great feast to one thousand of his great men, and before the one thousand he is drinking 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 →