Daniel 5:1

Belshatzar the king made a mishteh gadol (great feast) to a thousand of his nobles, and drank wine before the thousand.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

2Belshatzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his forefather Nevukhadnetzar had taken out of the Beis Hamikdash which was in Yerushalayim, that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:20And it came to pass on Yom HaShlishi, which was the yom huledet of Pharaoh, that he made a mishteh (feast) unto all his avadim; and he lifted up the rosh sar hamashkim and the rosh sar ha'ofim (head of the chief baker) in the midst of his avadim (officials).

Isaiah 21:4My lev panted, 1 fearfulness seized upon me; 1 the neshef (twilight) of my longing 1 hath become unto me as kharadah (shuddering horror). 1

Isaiah 22:12And in that day did Adonoi Hashem Tzva'os 1 call to weeping, and to wailing, 1 and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; 1

Jeremiah 51:39In their excitement I will prepare their mishtim (feasts), 1 and I will make them shikkor, that they may rejoice, 1 and sleep shenat olam (a perpetual sleep), 1 and never awake, saith Hashem. 1

Nahum 1:10For while they be twisted together as sirim (thorns), 1 and while they are drunken as drunkards, 1 they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. 1

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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