Daniel 5:4

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of iron, and of wood, and of stone.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

In Context

3So the gold and silver vessels were brought which Nabuchodonosor had taken out of the temple of God in Jerusalem; and the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines, drank out of them.

5In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote in front of the lamp on the plaster of the wall of the king's house: and the king saw the knuckles of the hand that wrote.

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Cross References

1 Kings 1:49And all the guests of Adonias were dismayed, and every man went his way.

Psalms 135:15and overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endures for ever. 1

Isaiah 42:8I am the Lord God: that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praises to graven images.

Isaiah 46:6They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make + 46:6 Gr. things made with hands. idols, and bow down, and worship them.

Daniel 3:1In his eighteenth year Nabuchodonosor the king made a golden image, its height was sixty cubits, its breadth six cubits: and he set it up in the plain of Deira, in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 5:23And you have been exalted against the Lord God of heaven; and they have brought before you the vessels of his house, and you, and your nobles, and your mistresses, and your concubines, have drunk wine out of them; and you have praised the gods of gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and wood, and stone, which see not, and which hear not, and know not: and the God in whose hand are your breath, and all your ways has you not glorified.

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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