Daniel 5:1

Baltasar the king made a great supper for his thousand nobles, and there was wine before the thousand.

LXX2012 (British)

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

2And Baltasar drinking gave orders as he tasted the wine that they should bring the gold and silver vessels, which Nabuchodonosor his father had brought forth from the temple in Jerusalem; that the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines, should drink out of them.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:20And it came to pass on the third day that it was Pharao's birth-day, and he made a banquet for all his servants, and he remembered the office of the cupbearer and the office of the baker in the midst of his servants.

Isaiah 21:4My heart wanders, and transgression + 21:4 Lit. baptises overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.

Isaiah 22:12And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and + 22:12 Gr. shaving baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:

Nahum 1:10For the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and 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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