Daniel 5:30
That night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed,
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
In Context
31and Darius the Mede received the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old.
Cross References
Isaiah 21:4My heart pounds; I shake with fear. 1 Twilight was my desire, but it brought me terror. 1
Jeremiah 51:11Sharpen the arrows and take up the shields. Yahweh is stirring up 1 the spirit of the king of the Medes in a plan to destroy Babylon. 1 This is for Yahweh's vengeance, vengeance for the destruction of his temple. 1
Jeremiah 51:39When they become hot with greed, I will make a feast for them; I will make them drunk so they become happy, 1 and then sleep an unending sleep and not wake up—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1
Daniel 5:1Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his noblemen, and he drank wine in front of all one thousand of them.
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 →