Daniel 5:1

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

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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, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple at Jerusalem; that the king and his princes, his wives and his concubines, might drink therein.

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Cross References

Isaiah 21:4My heart panteth, Terror hath seized upon me; The evening of my desire is changed into horror.

Isaiah 22:12The Lord, Jehovah of hosts, calleth you this day To weeping and to lamentation, To baldness and to girding with sackcloth.

Jeremiah 51:39In their heat I will prepare them a drink, And will make them drunk, so that they shall rejoice, And then sleep an everlasting sleep, And awake no more, saith Jehovah.

Nahum 1:10For while they are entangled like thorns, And like those that are drunk with wine, They shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

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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