Daniel 5:4

They drank the wine and praised their idols made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Unlocked Literal Bible

In The King James Version

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

In Context

3The servants brought the gold containers that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God, in Jerusalem. The king, his noblemen, and his wives and concubines drank from them.

5At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared in front of the lampstand and wrote on the plaster wall in the king's palace. The king could see part of the hand as it wrote.

Read all of Daniel 5

Cross References

1 Kings 1:49Then all the guests of Adonijah were terrified. They stood up and each man went his way.

Psalms 135:15The nations' idols are silver and gold, 1 the work of men's hands. 1

Isaiah 42:8I am Yahweh, that is my name; 1 and my glory I will not share with another nor my praise with carved idols. 1

Isaiah 46:6People pour out gold from the bag and weigh silver on the scale. 1 They hire a metalsmith, and he makes it into a god; they bow down and worship it. 1

Daniel 3:1King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue that was sixty cubits tall and six cubits wide. He set it up in the Plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 5:23You have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. From his house they brought you the containers that you, your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from, and you praised the idols made of silver and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—idols that do not see, hear, or know anything. You have not honored the God who holds your breath in his hand and who knows all your ways.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:2-10

Belshazzar's Feast; The Hand-writing on the Wall. ( b. c. 538.) 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Daniel 5:4