Daniel 5:30
In the same night was Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, slain;
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
In Context
31and Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
Cross References
Isaiah 21:4My heart panteth, Terror hath seized upon me; The evening of my desire is changed into horror.
Jeremiah 51:11Make sharp the arrows; put on the shields! Jehovah hath roused up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; For his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; For this is the vengeance of Jehovah, The vengeance for his temple.
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.
Daniel 5:1Belshazzar, the king gave a great feast to his thousands lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
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 →